One of the recent updates started to show a Bitwarden advertisement at startup when the plug-in is running in the edge browser. How do I make this go away! I want the old behavior where Bitwarden (even with the plug-in) would just run in the background (from the task bar). I do not want your advertisements or to have to click them away at every reboot.
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Well, I don’t use Edge… but I don’t know of any “Bitwarden ad” coming up… (neither from the browser/web vault ?! nor from the BW browser extension)
To be honest, my first reaction would be “it’s not from Bitwarden” – but maybe it is, so could you make a screenshot, so that we can see what you see…?
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Here is a screenshot. It comes up on every reboot/user login.
This is relatively new behavior, and it is an edge window and it appears to be coming from the edge plug-in.
NOTE: @JasonB I composed and posted this comment before I saw your screenshot above. Please skip this for now, and instead see my follow-up comment below.
I cannot reproduce this using the latest browser extension (version 2026.1.0) in an Edge browser (on a Windows 11 system). I have not made any customizations the the browser startup page, so when the Edge browser is first launched, it opens to a New Tab Page (ntp.msn.com); this page consists of tiles with news stories and sponsored content — approximately every 3rd tile is an advertisement:
Are you seeing the Bitwarden advertisement in one of these tiles?
That sounds like there is some type of pop-up window that appears when you launch your Edge browser. You could try to block these using one ore more of the following suggestions:
First, enter the following in the browser address bar:
edge://settings/startHomeNTP
There, look in the “New tab page” section, and click the toggle to turn OFF the option “Copilot new tab page”.
Second, enter the following in the browser address bar:
edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allPermissions/popups
There, click the toggle to turn ON the option “Blocked (recommended)”, and then remove any website containing bitwarden.com from the list websites under “Allowed to send pop-ups and use redirects”.
Third, enter the following in the browser address bar:
edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allPermissions/notifications
There, click the toggle to turn ON the option “Ask before sending (recommended)”, and then remove any website containing bitwarden.com from the list websites under “Allowed to send notifications”.
After making the above changes, please restart the browser. Or better yet, restart the browser after each change, to find out which settings made a difference (if any).
I posted my comment above before you posted your screenshot.
Please enter edge://settings/startHomeNTP in the browser address bar, and post a screenshot showing what is displayed in the section “On startup”:
I resolved the issue. Multiple browser windows were opening at reboot each with different user contexts (you can simulate this by clicking on the badge in the top right corner of the browser window). One of those contexts was an “app” that auto-launched at startup. The window for that app is actually an edge window which was running the plug-in.
Here is where I am starting to guess…
Because that user context doesn’t have a BitWarden account, the Bitwarden plug-in was opening the advertisement page from BitWarden.
I cannot decipher what you’ve written, but I’m glad that you seem to have solved your problem. For the benefit of future readers who may be searching for a solution to the same problem, it would be helpful if you could share the steps you took to resolve the issue.
Although I don’t know what OP is saying either, one way this might happen (
I don’t use Edge) is that the bitwarden.com page (the same one as posted in #3) can actually be set up as an app configured to run on startup. If set up this way, the Bitwarden home page will display in a “headless” web app, similar to what OP is saying. It can probably be removed as an app that autostarts as well.
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Judging from this UI, this is very likely a PWA. You might have accidentally clicked the install button on the address bar.
Go to edge://apps and uninstall it.
See Install, manage, or uninstall apps in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support
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