When I am searching for a password, Autofill suggestions stay above all the results. I have a large number of cloud infra lab tenants and whatnot, and if I am on a page that matches these autofill suggestions, they all show up. So if I then need to grab a password for a local applications/tool that is outside of my browser, I’ll search for it. That search result then appears below these autofill suggestions and I have to scroll to get it.
To avoid this, I need to completely rename and reorganise everything or open a blank tab to have 0 autofill suggestions.
This seems to have only started with the new UI. Would really like to see search results always appear first like it used to, or at least give the option to change the current behaviour to the old behaviour.
PS: I delete or changed big parts of my text, as the thing is different than I thought…
I just tested it… if you had enough auto-fill suggestions and favorites that match the search results, you only see one search result in “all items” - or even no search result in “all items” without scrolling.
The search seems to work like a “filter” for the three categories - Auto-fill suggestions, Favorites and All items.
So, I think I agree that “the search results should be on top of everything else”. But the problem seems to be - for now - that there is not an own category “search results” that could even be on top of the other results.
I just read your answer in “my” thread - but already thought it myself:
Auto-fill suggestions are irrelevant when you search (if they were relevant, you would choose one of them instead of “search”).
Favorites are irrelevant when you search. Same reason.
→ Search results should show results for a search of all vault items. Right? (whether you call that then a category “search results” or still “all items” would be unimportant then… it would be both - search results for all vault items)
(especially because “auto-fill suggestions” and “favorites” are also already a part of all vault items… - why… why did they make something so simple (searching) so complicated?!? )
Pretty succinctly covers my thoughts on it. I’m search my vault because I know what I want to grab, just faster to type than to scroll through a giant list.
Not to me. I have a whole bunch of Google accounts. When on a Google login page, I can open the vault and am presented with a long auto-fill list. When I type “work” in the search bar, all but two items on the auto-fill list disappear.
And to the extent that the section becomes irrelevant, it does disappear today (v 2024.12.03). When I type something unrelated to the current page, leaving only the “all-items” [sic], tab
That said, being able to personalize the vault-tab by rearranging the order of the “tiles” seems like a good idea, similar to the idea for collapsing the tiles (now mentioned as “on its way” in the page banner).
As pointed out by @DenBesten, there is an exception: there is a class of users who have large numbers of accounts that are URI-matched to the same site, and those users may prefer to use the search function to surface a specific account from among the matching login items.
Although I am likely influenced by some personal bias, I believe that this subpopulation of users, while not insubstantial, is in the minority.
Regardless, this group of users could be accommodated by adding some search option or search expression modifier to limit the search to matching URIs only. (e.g., !searchterm).
Seems like one solution would be to offer one-click autofill functionality for any search result that has a URI match (without floating the URI-matched entries to the top of the search results list). Similarly, IMO, any Card or Identity item should always be displayed with a one-click autofill option (button or clickable item name), no matter where on the Vault page it is found.
So… that actually is an improvement for you with new extension then?!
But how did you handle that with the old extension, as it always changed for a search 1. to the “Vault” tab, 2. searched all items and 3. therefore didn’t offer the “click on item to auto-fill” for any search result ?
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