Funny how I didn't even think to look for appearance settings.
The first beta version had all of these annoying quirks, but then they added a bunch of settings (Compact Mode, Quick Copy Actions, Wide Mode, Disable Animations) that after you change them gives you a solid experience.
Nevermind, sibling had the answer: "Settings < Autofill < Click items to autofill from Vault"
It looks like an afterthought from them because the label is the only one not translated on the extension.
Anyway, I'm more than happy to have the quick actions back!
And search input until it's first rendered is lost now.
Context: I need to input a 2fa code every morning when I start working - previously this was click on Chrome extension, type work, move hand to mouse.
Now it is click, wait wait wait click again wait wait wait wait, click (menu opens finally), click on search input, type work, click on copy 2fa code
I don't mind the general visual update. But the change to the copy buttons was a step backwards.
To the bitwarden folks... if I'm opening up the extension 99% of the time it's one of these use cases:
1. I'm creating a login for a new site
2. I'm on a site that doesn't support autofill, and I'm manually copying user/pass/code
3. I'm filling credit card info, and want to select a specific card
Both #2 and #3 got worse with this change. Put the damn copy buttons in the huge amount of whitespace you have for the entry. Don't hide them in an overflow. Put each of the user/pass/2fa buttons in a fixed space, and don't move them.
That being said, I also hated the change that hid the copy buttons, but they have a setting that brings them back.
I'd also like to add that if you keep repeating that shortcut it will cycle through the different logins you have for the current site.
The vast majority of the time I'm opening the extension popover it's because the key combo failed to autofill (site doesn't support it) and I need to manually copy/paste.
For extra fun - the Key combo is customizable if you don't like ctrl-shift-L
Just hit up chrome://extensions/shortcuts and change the combo to something you'd like.
I hate the title "Tips for long-time Bitwarden users" like they are seeing us as dumb but whatever.
If I can get my quick buttons back, I'm glad!
> Change the default behavior of clicking a vault item
That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.
The two-click copy button is absolutely the worst new "feature" they added. That setting should be opt-in by default.
If you want, I believe you can override the update url in chrome to stop the auto-update process in the future: https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=ExtensionSe...
Alternatively, at least for chromium browsers - you can download the .crx directly, unzip it (p7zip will do it), and sideload it using the "Developer mode" checkbox on chrome://extensions. Firefox sadly doesn't support this - they'll remove any sideloaded extensions on browser close.
It did lead me to discover my automatic update process wasn't actually rebooting the vaultwarden server.
I lost a couple days of new accounts/passwords because this[1] probably happened.
[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/4921
I mean, you're explicitly choosing to self-host an alternative backend server which isn't affiliated with Bitwarden. You could have used their SaaS, or self-hosted their official backend they provide on GitHub, for free, and which is almost entirely open source (AGPL, they have some small enterprise specific bits such as SSO which are under a commercial license which is still free, just not open source).
But you choose to self-host a random person's project that tries to keep track with Bitwarden APIs and various frontends, on a best effort basis. That's a ton of risk I really wouldn't take with something as sensitive as passwords to everything.
In the previous version, you'd go Vault -> Search -> [Find Thing] -> Copy Username, but when you de-focused the extension it would return you to the vault home, so yet again you had to do Vault -> Search -> [Find Thing] -> Copy Password.
This one, when it loses focus, it stays exactly where you left it.
1. It's much faster. This alone makes the refresh worth it imo.
2. The edit item / fill item UX is much more consistent than it was. Before, when you search for and click a card it opens the item, but if you click a card because it matches the current domain then it fills the item, to open it instead you have to click the little "open item" button. Even as a long time user I would often misclick because the context changes the behavior of clicking a card and my muscle memory would be the opposite of what I wanted. Now there's a "Fill" button when a card matches the current domain and clicking anywhere else always opens the item. My only critique is that the Fill button could be a bit bigger to so it's easier to click.
At least on safari.
Settings -> Autofill -> Click items to autofill in Vault view
w.r.t. a small, split-second one in initial rendering, i'd take it ten times out of ten over what it was for me all these years: immediate ability to key in input, but if you typed at the precisely (im)perfect moment, which was an extremely common occurrence, the extension would bug out and not perform the actual search.
so i'm sitting there for about a whole second wasted for having waited out the threshold to realize that it bugged out yet again and didn't perform my search. then, i would have to either backspace or type in the next character in the query in order to trigger the search; this was often an unpleasant added mental overhead when backspacing would repopulate results that you were trying to filter out.
i'd rather have the split-second delay for every initial render.
Like, if this change was an accident and slipped through that is bad. If it was approved, it's even worse because as you said, it shows that the person who is in charge of how we, the users, interact with the product day-to-day doesn't understand the product or doesn't take their role seriously.
Then Proton CEO made some statements I found offensive, so I re-activated my Bitwarden account, migrated back, and am now learning to love the changes.
The best I've got for tips are:
1. Settings > Appearance > Quick Copy
2. Settings > Appearance > Compact Mode
3. Settings > Appearance > Extension Width > Wide
I still don't love it, but it remains the best of the bunch.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_poli...
I don’t get it, we want anti trust laws right? Democrats as well I assumed? I actually thought they were more of a democrat thing tbh, but now that the republicans want them they are bad? I don’t get it anymore.
I'm assuming they meant fascist because the CEO is a republican.
As a non-American, it's not my problem but I can see why people would want to distance themselves
Edit ok read the X post, man you guys are losing it if you call that fascist. So divided, you can be either black or white. I feel sorry for you.
Say one thing good about Trump and you’re a fascist, just pretend that all he does is bad. There is no more way of looking at it objectively. No wonder you are so divided over there. I really would stop watching the news. Half your country voted for him. What does it say about you that you view half your country as fascists?
Again, I am not American, and would rather avoid the mess that is their politics
I'm very surprised a search didn't turn this up for you, or you're not asking in good faith.
Bitwarden, return the normal UI back!
actually pretty anoying.
The old one was instant on clicking the shield icon. The new one is slow and flashes a few times before showing me the UI.
Also, the entire field used to be selectable to fill fields. Now I have to aim at the tiny Fill icon and it's even harder to get to the time-based 2FA code.
I get why they've done it but I have never seen any software this slow in my life. Even just displaying the boxes seems like it needs a progress bar.
The thing I despise most among their UI “improvements” is entry click expands the entry now. To fill you have to find that tiny “fill” button and click that.
Sure it looks more modern and a few things are better.
But personaly I HATE the new "copy" button.
With the old version there was a button for each field : one to copy the login, one to copy the password, one to copy the TOTP.
Now there's just a single button that will display a list of options to choose from depending on what you want to copy.
So instead of copying a field with one click, now I need to do one click, go on the right option, and another click.
Even worse: if the account contains only one field, the copy button will still display the list of options, with just one option.
How could nobody think that when the user want to copy something from a list, and this list contains only one item, the right thing to do is to copy this single thing, not ask them what they want to copy...