Feature name
Automatically Open Desktop Bitwarden App if not open when Unlocking with Biometrics in Browser
Feature function
Instead of prompting the user to open the app when it isn’t already running, why not just open it automatically?
It seems like it used to do this based on a post I made here but it might have been removed since it never worked. I too hate keeping the desktop app running but want to use Touch ID seamlessly so having the app open automatically for the prompt and then quit again would be a great solution since there doesn’t seem to be a way for the Firefox extension to do it directly.
The only thing that your old post shows is that in 2023, you wanted Bitwarden to have this feature (not that such a feature ever existed).
I do not think that this is possible. Because of security reasons, extensions should never be able to execute local commands or start applications.
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