Automatically submit login form on auto-fill

Feature Requests Password Manager
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Yes, this is the only feature so far that I really miss from LastPass. Seems like a glaring oversight to me.

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42

wow 4 years later and this has not been implemented yet

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43

+1. This is my #1 feature request.

44

It would be sweet if the password added by Bitwarden could have a carriage return appended to it. This way the entered data would launch immediately.

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46

Really great feature to have. Any news regarding the plans to implement it?

47

Yes please! :+1:
It would seem if you do not use auto-fill and manually select the login, submitting what you have selected would be implicit. You really shouldn’t have to add an additional click/keystroke.

Perhaps the safest and most flexible would be to have a separate “Submit on fill” option for each defined login. Then, it would be separate from auto-fill and not used where a miss-fire might be problematic.

48

I also really want this feature :smiley:

49

i have this feature in roboform, and the idea that i’ll have to maybe double the number of clicks by switching to bw is giving me pause. Seems needlessly inconvenient to have to tell the page to submit after clicking in bw to enter the un/pw.

50

You don’t actually have to do any “clicking in Bitwarden” to fill in the log-in credentials (e.g., if you’ve enabled autofill on page load). Personally, I don’t use autofill on page load (too many security risks), but I use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+L) to autofill the login credentials, and then I can usually submit the form by hitting the Enter key.

51

+1 for this feature :smiley:

52

Upvoting this feature request from 2018. Having recently moved from LastPass to Bitwarden, I was quite disappointed to know that this very useful feature is not implemented.

Are there any updates from the developers on this? It’s been 5 years and I don’t see any progress here or comments on here from the BW development team. Has this even been discussed and/or part of the roadmap?

Reddit topic where I discussed this same thing and provided some examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1393kx6/does_bw_have_the_ability_to_simulate_the_enter/

Happy to answer any further questions.

53

+1 this feature. This is the only feature I miss from lastpass

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54

Having come from LastPass and trying out BitWard, I was surprised that BitWarden doesn’t have this feature – i.e., to tell BitWarden to auto-submit credentials for a specific site. It’s very convenient to bypass the login process completely for some sites.

I would add a twist to this request: Not only allow “auto-submit” to be enabled for specific sites, but allow a modifier key (e.g., holding down shift or control) to temporarily disable the behavior.

While I appreciated LastPass’ auto-submit capability 99% of the time I used it, there are a couple sites that I benefitted from auto-submit but would occasionally want to log in with an alternate account and preventing the auto-submit was cumbersome (disable auto-submit, log in with alternate credentials, re-enable auto-submit so it works again next time) and a “prevent auto-submit” modifier key would be handy in those cases.

55

5 YEARS since this feature was requested. Obviously this isn’t going to happen. I can’t imagine why the developers are so against this feature as to completely ignore it for 5 years. Too Bad as it’s the only reason I have to keep Lastpass installed.

Does anyone have any recommendations for other password managers that have the auto-login feature and are cheaper that Lastpass or free?

56

I pay for Bitwarden, and so have expectations that when a feature is requested, there is at least a follow-up or reply as to it’s status. It’s not ok to just ignore the request.

Being that I’m a paying member, I would also like this functionality added, as it’s built into so many other products.

After all, my paying for the product helps pay for stuff like this, does it not? :wink:

Thank you!

EDIT: I’ve also submitted a support ticket for this. I think the community deserves a response.

57

Hi all - the team has seen this feedback. One of the reasons there is hesitation on moving forward is that automatically submitting a form induces a security risk when the website is compromised. Having users submit the form is another checkpoint for the user to review that the end application doesn’t look suspicious.

That said, the team can review this again and see if there’s an approach we can take that doesn’t induce a security risk. Security is the highest priority at Bitwarden.

58

I think there is a security risk when the password auto fills and there is a ‘show password’ on the website in question and when the permission is set to “view only, except password”. This would apply to over 50% of the web these days.

The above just makes the permission setting redundant

Just have an option like Dashlane that says ‘auto-sumbit’ and make it so it must be enabled if there is the ‘view only, except password’ permission set. Otherwise, refuse to fill in the password.

59

When I use Bitwarden to fill the login credentials ([ctrl+shift+s] or select from icon), I still need to hit [enter] or click a [login] button to proceed with the login.
Enpass manages to automate this. You use [ctrl+/] to fill the credentials and the login proceeds automatically, because Enpass adds the [enter] character. This also works with outlook.com, which uses a Two-step login (username first, password next).

An option to “Automatically add [enter]” would be nice.

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60

It’s a good idea, but I’d like this to remain an option, if possible off by default. The reason is because when you have multiple logins matching the same URL, it’s good to be able to review before logging in.

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61

Agreed. The team could consider to implement this as a general option or a per item option.

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