Wow, what a strange problem. 1Password has been pretty reliable for me and the Safari extension has never given trouble, but two days ago, I got to the point where Safari would open, then the keyboard would lock and the Safari menu bar changed to the 1Password menu items. Very strange.
I don’t know what happened, but the solution wasn’t easy to find, I ended up doing:
- Reboot the system. This didn’t help although the system extension cache had to get rebuilt. i don’t think this was the problem since 1Password doesn’t use it.
- Then I removed the 1Password for Safari extension by going to Safari > Settings > Extensions > 1Password and then when you click Uninstall, you get a message to delete in Finder.
- I did a reboot. Still no joy. Then I had the genius idea to remove all other extensions as maybe there was a conflict. Didn’t work. Another reboot
- Finally, I noticed that when the 1Password menu comes up if you hit Exit enough times, then the Safari menu comes up.
- Finally, went to the 1Password for Mac applications and in Settings > Browser, I saw that “Conenct with 1Password in the browser” was unchecked. That was strange, but I checked it again
- And suddenly it works.
I think some upgrade of 1Password for Mac broke the browser compatibility, you are warned.
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