Add a Home button - to easily and quickly get back to the main/"default" view and to reduce clicks

[Nail1684]

Thanks, good questions!

@DenBesten

So, you are proposing that the home button immediately return to the “vault” tab.

The Vault tab is the “main” tab - for search, auto-fill, etc. And already the “start page” - when there is no persistence (> 2 min)…

@DenBesten

Do you also propose it clear any search results and focus the cursor in the search field so that it looks just like it did immediately after logging in? Or just return to the vault page leaving search results intact, maybe with the search filed “selected” for easy overtyping?

Hm, both things would be possible and would have some justification…

• the Home button could respect the new persistence in that regard and get back to the Vault tab in the state it was (within the last two minutes)

• the Home button could also include a “reset state” feature and also clear the search results, opened items (View or Edit), or scroll position in the Vault tab (= disregard the “new persistence”)

I think I personally would be okay with either one of these two possibilities – to get to the Vault tab with one click would already be a major improvement for me.

If I had to do one more click (e.g. click the “x” to clear the search results) in the case of a Home button regarding the persistence of the Vault tab, I think I could live with that. (and frankly, I probably would prefer the persistence of the Vault tab - but ask me again tomorrow )

[Out of the scope of this feature request: Actually, as some like the new persistence and some don’t – to control the persistence of the browser extension itself (enabling/disabling it, customizing the time interval for the persistence - some may accept 30 seconds instead of 2 minutes, others may like 8 hours…) could be the topic for another feature request…]

PS: … on second thought… In my examples in the “original post” there were also examples of the Vault tab where a Home button would make sense… but with a Home button that “regards” persistence of the Vault tab, the question would indeed be, what the Home button should “cause” then when you are in the Vault tab right now…

So either, a “persistence-regarding-Home button” has a “reset” function on the Vault tab only (which already feels bad when I write this, because the same button working differently in the Vault tab itself then in all other “states” is bad)… or a Home button that always also opens a “resetted” Vault tab would indeed be the better implementation.

@DenBesten

What do you propose should happen if clicked on an Edit page where there are unsaved changes? Discard them or first prompt for save?

Hm, I think, that is a valid question - though the same problem is already there with the “back button”… and, it actually tackles another feature request (Persistent Bitwarden UI and maintain unsaved data).

Actually, I think it is a major problem of all Bitwarden apps, that you don’t get asked if you “want to save”, when you leave a page - a new Home button wouldn’t be a whole new problem in that regard.

@DenBesten

Another icon possibility would be to add a Bitwarden shield icon in one of the corners and use it as a “home” button.

Yeah, why not. You’re right - a logo is also often used (e.g. on websites) to get to the main page… ANY Home button would be more than welcome.