Privacy Guides @lemmy.one Andrew @andrew.masto.host 5mo ago

Bitwarden rolls out highly-requested autofill feature inside form fields

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/2/bitwarden-rolls-out-highly-requested-autofill-feature-inside-form-fields/

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Bitwarden is awesome.

I have no follow up.
I don't get it. Was that not a thing already?
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Ah okay! That's neat. Especially for the less technically inclined
- 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.
- Yes it has been already for a couple of weeks
Support for self-hosted users is slated for a future release.

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"
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.
  
  That makes sense. It seems so much more intuitive than the pop-up!
  
  can vouch reinstalled bitwarden recently and it got enabled automatically, had no clue about the feature so it was a welcomed change

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