Add "Use With Sites" to profile settings

[abudden]

In the Chrome plugin, you can include site URLs in the "Use With Sites" part of a profile configuration. They're really useful if you find a website that (say) doesn't support special characters in the password, so you can configure it to always use an Alphanumeric profile with that domain.

If you then click on the ring icon in the toolbar on one of those sites, it'll automatically pick the appropriate profile (but you can still change it if required).

It would be great if this could be implemented on the android version.

I'd imagine starting to type a "URL or domain" in webful passwordmaker and being offered suggestions for either sites I'd previously used webful passwordmaker for or those that are configured in one of the profiles (e.g. if I type bb it might offer bbc.com as a suggestion). Once I finish typing a URL (or select the suggestion), the Profile box would automatically switch to the appropriate one for that domain (but still allow me to then manually change it if desired). The previous passwordmaker pro app I used on android did this automatic URL suggestion behaviour (but only with websites I'd used before in the app; it didn't have a "Use With Sites" implementation so didn't change profile automatically).

In cases where I had a saved "Use With Site" entry for something like somewebsite.gov and I typed somewebsite.gov.uk then I'd expect it to change profile when I finished typing the v (perhaps only if I paused for a certain amount of time) and then switch back to Default when I typed .uk.

This would only really be useful to me if I could also import the site list from the RDF export from the Chrome plugin (I have quite a lot of sites in the Use With list for the various profiles I've got set-up).

I hope that makes sense.

[NoelLH]

Hey @abudden, thanks for writing this up. I added more implementation details in a prompt and asked Copilot to build a first version which I've now mostly reviewed. I think it looks viable to consider merging shortly.

Probably the main thing to note is that it doesn't have an autocomplete or a switch 'away' from a site match like you described. I'm leaning towards not adding these for now because I think they could add a lot of complexity for quite small benefits – both making it harder to maintain and more complex for some users to understand what's going on.

One reason I'm thinking this is that one way to do the patterns that seems widely supported is regular expressions. This is in itself relatively simple to support and if we are importing the setting from outside profiles it seems like we should provide support. But those patterns can also be complicated and overlap in ways that aren't immediately obvious. So things like the order the sites are listed and checked matters. Combining this support and an autocomplete that's not going to cause confusion seems challenging.

Also, when I tried to compare behaviour in Chrome PasswordMaker Pro, it didn't seem to have any autocomplete like this. (In fact, in domain mode for me it didn't seem to have any auto switch at all, not sure if that's a bug or if it just never did.) I appreciate you may be using a different extension but I think this is a sign that there isn't really a standard way this has been done across prior apps and extensions. So a very proactive interface seems like it risks getting in the way for at least some people who aren't used to it.

This is how Copilot summarised this part of what it built:

Auto Profile Selection

• Created PatternMatcherService for URL/domain pattern matching
• Auto-switches to matching profile when user types in the URL/domain field
• Smart behavior:
  • Auto-switches when user types a matching URL
  • Allows manual override (stops auto-switching if user manually changes profile)
  • Resets when user changes the URL (allows auto-switching again)
  • Temporary selection (doesn't persist unless user manually selects it)

Hopefully you agree this is at least a good start to get the core feature in place, with the focus on what I believe are the most common use cases of pasting in (or soon, opening-in-app!) whole domains or URLs.

[NoelLH]

Beta version 2.7.0 should let you try out the first pass at this – there's a download in the release now or it should be offered by Google soon if you're opted in to Play Store beta versions.

[abudden]

I've just had a very quick play and it's looking really promising, so thank you so much for doing this.

I'll do some more testing over the next few days.