✅ Autofill shortcut should open login window when vault is locked

tgreer · January 18, 2021, 4:07pm

Thanks @orrc and welcome! Threads merged and Votes combined

sugianto · February 2, 2021, 12:37am

@tgreer This is another duplicate you could merge too Open pop-up with autofill-shortcut when locked

ASghostKI · February 19, 2021, 1:24pm

Any updates on this ?
I’m trying to move out from LastPass to bitwarden and this is making it harder to get used to it.

I frustrating to hit the shortcut and nothing happens if it’s locked.

Susko3 · February 22, 2021, 8:56pm

I have some bad news, at least for the Chrome extension

github.com

bitwarden/browser/blob/3e79dd245b446f79ed48fea19159036141eb2f34/src/background/commands.background.ts#L89


    await this.main.collectPageDetailsForContentScript(tab, 'autofill_cmd');
    this.analytics.ga('send', {
        hitType: 'event',
        eventAction: 'Autofilled From Command',
    });
}
private async openPopup() {
    // Chrome APIs cannot open popup
    if (!this.isSafari) {
        return;
    }
    this.main.openPopup();
    this.analytics.ga('send', {
        hitType: 'event',
        eventAction: 'Opened Popup From Command',
    });
}

But it’s trivial to call this.openPopup(); here:

github.com

bitwarden/browser/blob/3e79dd245b446f79ed48fea19159036141eb2f34/src/background/commands.background.ts#L69


    this.passwordGenerationService.addHistory(password);
    this.analytics.ga('send', {
        hitType: 'event',
        eventAction: 'Generated Password From Command',
    });
}
private async autoFillLogin(tab?: any) {
    if (await this.vaultTimeoutService.isLocked()) {
        return;
    }
    if (!tab) {
        tab = await BrowserApi.getTabFromCurrentWindowId();
    }
    if (tab == null) {
        return;
    }

cho-m · February 25, 2021, 2:24am

For Chrome/Chromium, the exact problem is Issue 436489, which has been open since 2014.

Also, Bitwarden’s openPopup() really only supports Safari, so browsers that have implemented API like Firefox (See: browserAction.openPopup() - Mozilla | MDN) will require additional code.

This feature request might be a duplicate of 1494 that was created in July 2018, though that request isn’t tagged as app:browser.

There was also an old PR on this:

eddieirvine · May 7, 2019, 3:04pm

First of all: Bitwarden is great!

I just have an issue with the fact that the first time starting my browser (and Bitwarden is unlocked), I can’t use my shortcut (CTRL+Shift+L in my case) to launch the master password input screen to unlock Bitwarden.

Instead I need to click on the Bitwarden icon and unlock it from there.

Would it not be possible to launch a popup when the shortcut is performed?
By the way, I’m using Firefox on a Windows machine.

Thanks in advance.

BR,
Eddie.

carsondarling · November 18, 2019, 4:57pm

I would absolutely love this feature. Even if it was a dedicated shortcut that opened the “unlock” screen, I would be happy. I do as much as I can without touching the mouse, and right now Bitwarden is one of the very few reasons I have to touch a mouse.

key_equivalent · December 2, 2020, 9:43pm

Currently if your browser plugin vault is locked and you use the ctrl+shift+L hotkeys, nothing happens. In this case, it is evident what the user is trying to do, so it should bring up the unlock prompt instead of doing nothing.

vachan · December 3, 2020, 1:16am

Press Ctrl + Shift + Y

key_equivalent · December 8, 2020, 4:07pm

For me on Firefox Linux this combo opens up the Library/Downloads window

vachan · December 8, 2020, 4:20pm

If that is the case
Go to about:addons
Click on Extensions
Then Click on the settings icon next to Manage Your Extensions
Click on Manage Extension Shortcuts
Change the shortcut associated with Open vault popup

key_equivalent · December 9, 2020, 11:53pm

“Can’t replace built-in Firefox shortcut”

For this reason and general UX, this is why the normal autofill hotkey should prompt for unlock if needed. There’s really no reason not to

StephenMarshall · December 10, 2020, 7:12pm

On Linux, it’s Ctrl+Shift+U

key_equivalent · February 21, 2021, 4:15pm

In a lot of scenarios you’ll already be in the username or password field and Ctrl+Shift+U just changes to underline and doesn’t trigger bitwarden unless you click off onto the background and do it again.

I very much don’t understand why this would be contentious. In the scenario describe, the software knows what the user is trying to do. The software could just do it rather than doing nothing and requiring the user to learn, remember, and input another hotkey

asolopovas · April 10, 2021, 8:31pm

In my case CTRL + SHIFT + U not working on linux on chrome browser

GG1 · May 31, 2021, 8:40am

C’mon Bitwarden, let’s finally make this happen… IT’S BEEN 2 YEARS since the original post!
I just switched from using Firefox’s built in password manager where this has been the norm since forever… because this is the only logical workflow = when loading a website that has a stored login bring up a popup where the user can enter the master password to unlock the vault and be able to use the login for that website.

tgreer · May 31, 2021, 1:39pm

It’s actually in progress in a community PR here

github.com/bitwarden/browser

WIP: Open the popup when keybinding fails due to locked vault

bitwarden:master ← stefanmaric:master

opened 12:02PM - 01 Aug 19 UTC

stefanmaric

+37 -4

Trying to auto-fill or generate a password using Ctrl+Shift+L or Ctrl+Shift+9, …respectively, while the vault is locked should prompt the user to unlock the vault, instead of silently failing. Ideally, the popup should close itself after unlocking successfully; filling in the form in case of the autofill command and copying the generated password to the clipboard otherwise. But that would require quite a lot of changes. With this change, at least there's feedback about the intended action.

This community is nothing short of amazing!

mikey32230 · June 11, 2021, 1:17pm

I don’t think I’ve seen Ctrl + Shift + Y listed in the documentation anywhere, just in community forum posts.

This should probably get added to one of the https://bitwarden/help articles in the mean-time.

tmpope · June 16, 2021, 5:39pm

I also created an account to request this. After reading the discussions on the PR I understand the browser limitations preventing the pop-up, and want to say I’d be happy to have it work with the pop out window or a separate tab (as LastPass did) as an improvement over doing nothing.

vinfradude · July 1, 2021, 8:58pm

+1 for this… there should a global shortcut to activate bitwarden in any browser or system.

cmd+shift+Y is listed as only in Chrome and can’t be changed in the extension shortcut
cmd+shift+L can be switched to global from “in chrome” in the chrome extensions keyboard shortcuts settings.
This setting automatically uses the last logged in username and password but if you have multiple you still have to manually make the changes to login

(above is for osx and chrome on osx)