From personal experience, Bitwarden has been really mature about not kneecapping self-hosted users. Especially compared to other ventures like Standard Notes. They offer value by taking out the difficulty of running your own server, not by making it artificially difficult to set one up.
(I could be giving them a little too much credit, because Vaultwarden is a community driven effort, but I specifically watched SN make it harder to install third-party extensions if you don’t pay them monthly.)
I’ve been using KeePass and thought of course because so many people use Bitwarden that must be a thing there already. I’ve never used Bitwarden, but I would’ve switched to something else just because it didn’t have autofill for formfields. I even let KeePass auto-submit on websites where I know it works reliably, saving even more time, because I was annoyed by even having to press the “login” button. But I’m glad to know it exists on Bitwarden as well now.
Just to be clear, Bitwarden could autofill before, even automatically (if you are daring), it just didn’t have an inline button in the form fields that you could click on. That’s what they’ve added now.
It was definitely a feature I missed when I switched away from LastPass but I’ve been using Bitwarden for 5+ years now and haven’t had any major complaints in that time.
Awesome. It’s always been a little hit and miss whether the pop up for passwords would show when you click on a text field, and I resent having to drag the mouse all the way to the toolbar to get at them.
Looks like the desktop app has a few too. It’s not as powerful as KeePass’ options, which include hunting down and activating other windows and auto-typing your username and password, along with a bunch of user-specified options like pauses or custom keypresses, but it’s something.
(KeePass is also a whole lot clunkier and has no official web extension, so a lot of that is out of necessity.)
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Why would that be? Isn’t this client-side functionality, not server-side?
It works on my self hosted vaultwarden, they must’ve made a mistake when writing this
AKA “It probably works, but we didn’t test it, so it’s not officially supported yet”
From personal experience, Bitwarden has been really mature about not kneecapping self-hosted users. Especially compared to other ventures like Standard Notes. They offer value by taking out the difficulty of running your own server, not by making it artificially difficult to set one up.
(I could be giving them a little too much credit, because Vaultwarden is a community driven effort, but I specifically watched SN make it harder to install third-party extensions if you don’t pay them monthly.)
Bitwarden is awesome.
I have no follow up.
Very nice! Seems to work well, but it does need to be enabled in the Bitwarden settings (not on by default).
For new users it is on by default I believe, they just didn’t want to suddenly enable it on existing accounts.
can vouch reinstalled bitwarden recently and it got enabled automatically, had no clue about the feature so it was a welcomed change
That makes sense. It seems so much more intuitive than the pop-up!
It sure is, although on my setup it seems a bit buggy and only shows up after I manually autofill lol
I don’t get it. Was that not a thing already?
Yes it has been already for a couple of weeks
I’ve been using KeePass and thought of course because so many people use Bitwarden that must be a thing there already. I’ve never used Bitwarden, but I would’ve switched to something else just because it didn’t have autofill for formfields. I even let KeePass auto-submit on websites where I know it works reliably, saving even more time, because I was annoyed by even having to press the “login” button. But I’m glad to know it exists on Bitwarden as well now.
Just to be clear, Bitwarden could autofill before, even automatically (if you are daring), it just didn’t have an inline button in the form fields that you could click on. That’s what they’ve added now.
It was definitely a feature I missed when I switched away from LastPass but I’ve been using Bitwarden for 5+ years now and haven’t had any major complaints in that time.
It was not. This would add a little button in the password field of the page, instead of having to click the button in the browser toolbar.
Ah okay! That’s neat. Especially for the less technically inclined
Awesome. It’s always been a little hit and miss whether the pop up for passwords would show when you click on a text field, and I resent having to drag the mouse all the way to the toolbar to get at them.
No keyboard shortcut?
Hmmm you’ve got me wondering now…
Edit: Apparently there are! TIL: https://bitwarden.com/help/keyboard-shortcuts/
Not sure if they’d work on sites that the pop up box doesn’t work on, though. There are a handful where I have no choice but to copy and paste.
Didn’t know about Ctrl shift y thanks for this!
Looks like the desktop app has a few too. It’s not as powerful as KeePass’ options, which include hunting down and activating other windows and auto-typing your username and password, along with a bunch of user-specified options like pauses or custom keypresses, but it’s something.
(KeePass is also a whole lot clunkier and has no official web extension, so a lot of that is out of necessity.)
I can’t remember off the top of my head, but there is an autofill option in the right click menu.
/edit: Ctrl+Shift+L
Yes and you can just change it to whatever you like. I have it at ctrl shift A.
I use the shortcut all the time