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

(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”)