Well, damn. Thought for a minute we were done. But then I remembered I’d set the “Do not auto-fill on page load” option on. I did wonder about that.
I think in order to test this I should clear my cache and reboot? I do think Chrome keeps me logged in to sites, or some of them, even though I’ve disabled its password keeper.
OK, did that and on everything I tried I couldn’t log in, pressed ctrl-shift-l and got a popdown window from Bitwarden asking for my master password.
I’m not getting a 1 on the icon when I try a site I’ve got a password for.Not even Air Canada.
From what I can tell, the things you’ve reported in your last few comments seem normal.
In order for Ctrl+Shift+L to work (and in order to see the number in the corner of the browser’s Bitwarden icon), it is necessary for the Bitwarden Browser Extension to be unlocked.
When you’re on the Air Canada site and don’t see a 1 on the Bitwarden Browser Extension icon, what do you see? Is the shield icon in a gray color with no symbols superimposed on the icon? Or is it blue-and-white with a padlock symbol in the corner of the shield icon? By the way, both of these variants of the shield icon appearance are normal — the gray version of the icon means that the Browser Extension has been logged out, and the blue-white version with the padlock symbol means that the Browser Extension is logged in, but locked.
In either case, you just have to supply whatever credentials that the Bitwarden pop-up asks you for (when you click the icon, or when you attempt the Ctrl+Shift+L shorcut), and your browser extension should then become unlocked. While unlocked, the Bitwarden browser extension should work the way I described above.
I did notice one additional configuration error in your browser extension’s Auto-fill settings, so you should fix both of the things shown in the screen shot below:
Well, that may well be it; the icon is blue and gets a 1 when I open a site, and ctrl-shift-l fills in the form. (I take it I don’t want it to auto-fill on page load? )
Seems like I’m where I wanted to be when I posted the dumb question six days (!) and 104 messages ago.
Don’t know what to say other than Thank You. I’ve had a few experiences of tech support over the years, but never like this.
I’m not tech support, but you’re welcome regardless.
I’m not 100% confident that all of the bugs have been worked out of your system, but hopefully you find that things are working more often than not.
One thing to watch out for, is that Bitwarden will never “automagically” log you in to any account, even if you do enable “Auto-Fill on Page Load”. Thus, if you ever experience that your username and password are automatically filled in and that the login form is then automatically submitted, this is an indication that there is something other than Bitwarden in control of your passwords. Please watch out for this vigilantly, and seek help here if you ever observe this. [Note: Such automatic completion & submission of a login form is not to be confused with a website simply remembering that you are logged in, thus letting you back in to your account without even presenting a login form; such behavior is normal and not a cause for concern.]
If you find that using the Ctrl+Shift+L keyboard combination for each login is onerous, you could consider re-enabling the option to “Auto-Fill on Page Load”. However, doing so introduces security vulnerabilities, so I highly recommend that you do not enable “Auto-Fill on Page Load”.
I’m back. I’m not sure this is a bug that’s not yet worked out, but I am very frustrated that (as far as I can tell) there’s no practical way to add a new login. LastPass asked if it could record what I was doing, and did so. In Bitwarden, it appears that I have to enter the new information before actually logging in, and I have to know the accurate form of the URL I’ll be logging into, copy that (and the password I intend to use) into wordpad, and then invoke BitWarden, enter all that and save it, and only then check to see if it’s been done correctly. This can’t be the only way, can it?
The second part of your statement is definitely incorrect. When you use the Bitwarden Browser Extension (remember our terminology lesson?) to “Add a login”, it will automatically populate the URI1 field with the correct, exact URL of the webpage that is currently displayed in your browser. It will also use the domain of that website as a default name for the vault item.
In your Bitwarden Browser Extension if you click the Settings (
) icon in the lower right corner, then scroll down and click the Options > link, and look at the 3rd and 4th options in the list of “General” options, you should see “Ask to add login” and “Ask to update existing login”. Are those options checked or unchecked? If they are unchecked, you could check them, which should make Bitwarden prompt you when it detects that you are submitting a login form.
However, personally, I recommend disabling the “Save New Logins” option.
Instead, whenever you want to register for a new account on some website, use the following procedure:
Ctrl+Shift+Y (or click the Bitwarden icon 
) to open the browser extension.
(or “Add new login” link) to create a partially pre-filled login item.
in the Password field, and then click “Select” in the upper right corner of the Password Generator screen).This is faster, more robust and more secure than using the function for capturing information submitted in a web form.
Thank you. Again. This does seem cumbersome, but I expect I’ll get used to it. I don’t set up new logins very often these days, anyway.
It’s actually faster than the method you were used to from Lastpass. It just requires a shift in mindset that you have to start by setting up the account info in the browser extension (and then transfer the info to the web form), as opposed to starting by setting up the account info in the web form (and then transferring the info to the browser extension). It’s the opposite order of what you’re used to, but it actually requires fewer clicks.
But as I said, if you prefer the Lastpass way, you can go to Settings > Options and enable the options “Ask to add login” and “Ask to update existing login”:
This will make Bitwarden behave like Lastpass, taking information from the website form and saving it into your Bitwarden vault. However, with this way, it is more cumbersome (and less secure) to generate a random password for your new account, and you will also find that there are occasional glitches that may prevent the password from saving in Bitwarden, or that may cause a duplicate entry to be created in Bitwarden.
