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Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by rkangel on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:54AM (#37034496)
I am currently trialling Bitwarden. I have found that it's that great at picking up that you are creating an account, offering to generate and then saving the result (using Firefox with Bitwarden extension). I am looking at the other options as they are reportedly better at that sort of thing.

It's a shame though because Bitwarden is philosophically what I'm looking for.

Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by ethbr0 on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:14AM (#37034734)
Think you might have missed a not in there, if I'm reading sentiment correctly. "...found that it's that great..."
Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by rkangel on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:58AM (#37035373)
I did - edited to fix.
Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by kadoban on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:52AM (#37035279)
I noticed that as well, the fix for me is pretty easy: just create the account in bitwarder first and then autofill it in the actual account creation page. No extra work, and becomes habit quite quickly.
Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by rkangel on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:02AM (#37035431)
This is fine on desktop. It's less great on mobile.
Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by tracker1 on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:09PM (#37038272)
I haven't found it to be too bad on mobile... but ymmv of course.
Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by JoeyPriceless on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:56PM (#37040846)
I used to agree with this until I thought about the order in which to do it. The issue was that I'd open BitWarden manually to create credentials, rather than doing it during the autofill popup.

Here's how I do it on iOS:

1. Select the password field and open BitWarden through the button above the keyboard.

2. The password list will be empty. Press the + to create new credentials.

3. Enter a username, generate a password and press save.

4. The list will now have a single entry. Press it to autofill.

Re:Write your passwords down (2010) by kadoban on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:29PM (#37041827)
I do the same on mobile, not sure I noticed any reason it's worse there.