"Add Item" in Browser Plugin Disappears Silently When Creating a Credential

[Neuron5569]

Hello @square_eyes and welcome to the community,

I am sorry to hear what happened. What you suggested may be related to this 2018 feature request:

Persistent Bitwarden UI and maintain unsaved data

When creating a login I often want to copy paste information from elsewhere. This habit got ingrained when using LastPass. The Bitwarden extension doesn’t remember any state, however, so every time I click away the extension resets and I have to start all over again. It’d be nice if the extension remembered my location in other contexts, but I really really want it to save state while creating a login so that I can copy paste.

I personally wouldn’t bet on it becoming a feature soon, so I’ll suggest the following workarounds:

1. If using a Firefox browser, use the sidebar (Alt-Shift-Y).
2. If using a Chromium-based browser, use the popup windows until you are done with the credential creation.

As long as those two above stay open, the unsaved info don’t go away until you do something else.

Also, if you are still logged into the session that you created the credentials, using the random password generator, the passwords may still persist (I don’t know the limits) in the Password history (Generator → Password history).