I have Fastmail and I added my API to Bitwarden browser extension to generate masked emails, but everytime I close my browser, extension forgets my API and I have to create a new API. How to fix it?
Windows 11 - Brave 1.87.192
Extension Version: 2026.1.1
SDK: ‘main (8e5efd8)’
Server-Version: 2026.2.1
Change your session timeout action (Browser extension → Settings → Account security → Session timeout → Timeout action) to “Lock” instead of “Log out”.
Hm. My DuckDuckGo API key persists when I close Brave (also on Windows 11).
But my timeout is only a few minutes and not “Never”, so that might have an influence here.
BTW, you might reconsider “Never” anyway:
(and I have no idea, why this is only mentioned in the Enterprise policies section, while it is a general fact – PS: as I tested it now, I saw that you get that warning in the extension, at least…)
@Naxterra Hm. I shortly tested it with “Never”, and at least the DDG API key persists a closing of the browser then.
At the moment, I have no other idea what it could be.
What I personally would try now: log out on the extension, deinstall it, delete the local data of the extension manually if necessary, restart the device, reinstall the extension, log in again.
I deleted the extension and installed new 2026.2.0 version, also added timeout setting of new start of the browser.
It didn’t delete the API key so far. Let’s see.
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