Keyboard shortcut to switch between logged-in accounts

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Code Contribution Proposal

Problem

The browser extension supports being logged into multiple accounts at once (personal + org vaults, in my case), and autofill already has a dedicated keyboard shortcut. But switching the active account still requires opening the popup and clicking through the account switcher UI every time — there's no equivalent hotkey, even though the extension already tracks "next account to switch to" internally for other purposes (it's used as a fallback when the current account logs out).

For anyone juggling more than one account regularly, that's a lot of extra clicks for something that could be a single keypress.

Proposal

Add a new extension command, switch_account ("Switch to the next account"), that cycles to the next logged-in account by most-recent-activity order — the same ordering the extension already uses internally (AccountService.nextUpAccount$). No popup interaction required; it runs entirely in the background script, the same way the existing lock_vault command does.

It wouldn't ship with a default keybinding — Chrome/Firefox cap extensions at 4 commands with a pre-assigned default, and 3 of those are already spoken for (open popup, autofill login, generate password). Users would bind it themselves via chrome://extensions/shortcuts, the same way lock_vault, autofill_card, and autofill_identity work today.

Scope

This turned out to be a small, low-risk change — it reuses existing building blocks rather than adding new architecture:

• The account-cycling logic (nextUpAccount$) and the actual account-switch logic (MainBackground.switchAccount()) both already exist and are used elsewhere.
• No new state, no new UI, no changes to encryption/vault-data handling.
• Touches only the manifest (new command registration), one background-script switch case, and one locale string.

I have a working prototype against main if that's useful to share.

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