Support keyboard auto-fill from *any* unlocked account/vault

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(This is somewhat paraphrased from @michal-michalak’s comment on this thread, with some of my own thoughts added.)

Currently, if a user has accounts A and B, and they have credentials for the open site stored only on account B when account A is the active one, there is no way to auto-fill those credentials. The user first has to switch the account from the extension pop-up (via a mouse) first, which is not very convenient.

Basically, I would like to be able to auto-fill via a keyboard shortcut without meddling with the extension UI, from any of my unlocked accounts/vaults, regardless of which one of them is currently active in the UI.

Some possible ways this could be improved (in order of my personal preference for them):

  • if the auto-fill keyboard shortcut is pressed, the extension should just fill the first match from all accounts (and cycle through them when pressing the shortcut again)
  • have a separate auto-fill keyboard shortcut for every account; for example, Ctrl+Shift+L auto-fills from the currently active account, and Ctrl+Shift+K auto-fills from the second one (as long as the vault is unlocked)
  • add a separate keyboard shortcut for cycling through the available accounts; this means that auto-filling from a currently non-active (but unlocked) account would be a two-step operation (the first shortcut for changing the account and the second one to auto-fill)

My personal use case for this is that I need to be able to easily use credentials both from my personal account (on the official Bitwarden instance), and also from my work account (on an instance self-hosted by the company).

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I moved this comment into its own feature request topic, as it is important for each feature request thread to include only a single proposed feature (and your idea is different from the idea described in the other thread — “Prompt user when ‘Auto-fill on Page Load’ is used on page with multiple matches in vault”)

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I would also love to see this feature since I face the same issue.
Currently, I use my personal account (US Cloud) and have a second account (EU Cloud) from school, which is needed to share credentials. Therefore, I need to constantly switch accounts back and forth depending on the service type I’m logging into (personal or school).
Probably at some point in the future my Employer will also switch to Bitwarden, where I then have to manage 3 accounts.

My preferred solution would be a shortcut which fills from any unlocked account.
A switching shortcut would speed up the process of switching accounts but would not eliminate the hassle.