Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
Review by Firefox user 18807293
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 18807293, a year agoEdit: Thanks to Bitwarden for the response which has resolved one of my issues, partially, because this is not the default and the settings state is not replicated everywhere I have to set this setting in every browser and every account (so work and personal, all browsers). My issue about the cursor not starting in the search box seems to have been fixed/added so that's great, now there's just the UX decision to combine the password/username into a dropdown as a complaint.
Original review below.
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The recent update to the addon has introduced a huge UX degredation, instead of a single click to get the password to fill in a desktop application login prompt you now have to hit the smaller copy button and then accurately hit the copy password from the selection box options.
Also, the cursor doesn't automatically start in the search box after authentication anymore, this is really annoying as it forces me to every morning log in and then with the mouse select the search box so that I can get to my email password entry, so that I can then have to select the copy button where I then have to now select the copy password so that I can log into my email because my corporate email account times out authentication after 12 hours (and sometimes, for some reason, multiple times per day).
Also, you now have to hit the small fill button instead of the whole item to get the browser to fill in the details. This is a reverse of what you used to have to do as now clicking the item results in the screen to view the information in the item where you can edit from. I use this far less than I use filling the details so I find this also a big step backwards in UX and looking at the recent reviews it seems clear that they have introduced a lot of UX friction that users are not happy with.
Original review below.
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The recent update to the addon has introduced a huge UX degredation, instead of a single click to get the password to fill in a desktop application login prompt you now have to hit the smaller copy button and then accurately hit the copy password from the selection box options.
Also, the cursor doesn't automatically start in the search box after authentication anymore, this is really annoying as it forces me to every morning log in and then with the mouse select the search box so that I can get to my email password entry, so that I can then have to select the copy button where I then have to now select the copy password so that I can log into my email because my corporate email account times out authentication after 12 hours (and sometimes, for some reason, multiple times per day).
Also, you now have to hit the small fill button instead of the whole item to get the browser to fill in the details. This is a reverse of what you used to have to do as now clicking the item results in the screen to view the information in the item where you can edit from. I use this far less than I use filling the details so I find this also a big step backwards in UX and looking at the recent reviews it seems clear that they have introduced a lot of UX friction that users are not happy with.
Developer response
posted a year agoHi. Check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer.
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- Rated 2 out of 5by Junior, 4 days agoThese past few days I've experienced some delays when opening the extension and needing to reload the page to fill out the forms. It is the same for Chrome, Brave and Firefox
- Rated 4 out of 5by anon, 7 days agoI like the idea, it would be nice to add the option to add a website while fetching for a match instead of having to open the add-on, edit and manually adding the website. Like the phone app. An auto-update and save function kinda thing.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Laurens22, 8 days agoIt's good at what it does, but slows down my Firefox too much. I have enough RAM and nothing else running - so please look into this and fix!
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- Rated 2 out of 5by majdos, 15 days agoUp until recent update, everything worked so well. Now whenever I try to open the addon on my side panel, it just disappears before I even get access to my login information
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- Rated 5 out of 5by TheAnonymousAutist, 24 days agoThis is actually a very good password manager for those at the home, professional, enterprise and developer levels - even with open-source code.
This is also a very effective tool and extension and perfect for parental controls, passkey creation, password management, encryption, VPNs, etc.
As a superadapted Autistic person that already suffered a lot of obstacles on their online career for the past decade - this extension is actually a very well-made and designed extension - and I'd love to see open-source software to start evolving and maturing over time.
And your cross-platform compatibility makes it easier for people to add your extension - as I already use a bunch of popular Firefox extensions myself - like uBlock Origin, Chrome Masker, Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo Essential Protections and so on.
Your team's extreme levels of honesty and passion were the main factors and reasons to why that I have gotten very deep onto security over the past decade or so - thus making it easier for a average smarter Autistic person to understand - which I am one of those people.
If you have an IQ of 120 or higher - your main signs and symptoms of Autism - like hyperfocus, superadaptation and hypersensitivity would become more noticeable once you get older, but they get more manageable with time.
Your security company is one of the few companies that actually care about password management, hashing and encryption - and your massive researcher and hacking community made it to become a reality - and to be precise on my point of view - philosophically, ethically, mentally, socially, physically and sociologically - this company has some of the best features for cybersecurity.
And I would love to use this extension and to encourage others to use this extension too.
And please make a similar review if you have similar opinions to mine - and let's continue spreading positivity all across the Firefox community to promote open sourcing for all.
And please reach me out to me if you want to talk to me on my extensive analysis on other popular extensions.
It has some flaws to it, sure - but dear Bitwarden devs - please fix some of the bugs that people are experiencing on your bug bounty hunting programs and your extension in general.
If you guys are able to do it for the next updates, thank you.
And good luck on your journey, Bitwarden!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Piomio, a month agoExcellent password manager. Much better since the last update. The latency issue has disappeared. There is a little issue with the search field which does not get empty after cliking on a search result.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19837517, a month agoImporting passwords from my default password manager into bitwarden was a nightmare. After it was activated, the login details on sites like google were not filling in, making this add-on absolutely unusable in both chrome and firefox.