I honestly searched for a similar topic, but I don’t understand why it hasn’t been marked by anyone. Maybe only I don’t have a connection between a detached window and its parent?
It’s obvious that a detached window should accept the site address from which it was opened as a parameter. It’s also clear that the programmer created a clear template “New window” without considering how to use it. It’s simple; he doesn’t use Bitwarden himself.
For each browser tab, you need to do a manual password search - just don’t tell me that’s what the developers intended.
I suppose I’ll get the answer: it’s technically impossible. But I’ll never believe it.
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I ask to make the left and right parts of the image look identical.
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Now the sorting of cards with logins goes alphabetically,
I ask you to sort it to the site address, from which the deattached window was open
I noticed this about two years ago; show me that I’m not the only one who cares about this.
The strategy of a “detached window,” as some active forum members suggest as a long-term permanent solution, is fundamentally flawed.
I easily end up with five or more of these windows. These “detached windows” hide under the browser, and I only find them after several hours. I’d like to remind you that each detached window consumes memory just like any browser extension—50-100 MB. The Windows taskbar groups them together, and I don’t even notice them.
A “detached window” is a dead-end approach! Even if my suggestions were implemented, it would be better to have just one “detached window.” In that case, its state should switch to receiving the active tab’s address and automatically searching for the appropriate password.
This kind of behavior would be the most convenient.
We have a chronic misunderstanding. I kindly ask you not to twist my words “upside down.” Where did I say: “I need several external BW windows”? Where?
When I click “Detach Window,” It is entirely located in the right corner of the browser window, without going beyond its boundaries.
I am an experienced user. Naturally, I have ONE-click enabled for opening executable files and the most dangerous option for BW in the Windows interface - “Active Window under Mouse”.
(Sorry, I won’t translate this part too much. Cursor types are the best translation to define the address in Windows Settings.)
This is the only way to increase the speed of working on a computer.
Don’t treat everyone as if they were grannies sitting on a bench.
In this case, exactly ONE SECOND later, the detached BW window lies down underneath the browser window.
The developers, when creating this detached window, were aware of this quirk in Windows. ?
Is everything okay with your logical thinking? I showed you a picture; I didn’t delete the website address on purpose.
The picture, a screenshot ! If there’s a screenshot, it means there’s a situation in BW where the website address is NOT transferred to the detached BW window.
And do you think that in the BW window, you can only press the “NEW” button? Where did I mention the “NEW” button? I have enough scenarios for working with the detached BW window without creating a “NEW” one.
Due to the incomprehensible, to the depths of my soul, “detached window” strategy, I must, after clicking “Unpin,” within no more than 1000ms, catch the header of this BW window and drag it outside the browser. Just to see it at least by 1 cm.
And all these actions are interconnected. They are a consequence of your delightful “detached window” strategy.
Five or more BW windows spontaneously detach when I simply stop working with them. I leave them for further work, open new tabs, and the cycle repeats. Are you making me use a calculator to count how many BW windows I have open?
I kindly ask you not to personally respond to my posts. I write hundreds of words, and you…“Do you have a specific question?”
I perceive this as a form of bullying and trolling.
If my words are unclear to you, take a break from constantly deleting my texts. I write them for forum visitors and developers.
Okay, I’ll summarize briefly so that there are no further “what are you even talking about? I don’t understand”
You have made a “unlocked window”. Although 7 years ago developers were not asked for this. Users asked for a simple pin.
Even this mode cannot be called completely working.
Make a “pin”. Then 1 point can be deleted (but no need, for those who like to carry BW around the desktop)
This immediately removes such problems:
– getting a “unlocked window” under the browser
– Each BW window is tied to its tab, and , I hope, it will ALWAYS receive the site address from the browser tab.
– closing the 7-year-old Gestalt.
No offence, @serega_da , but I too don’t really understand what you are trying to say.
You talk about some things - but I don’t get from your writings if you find them good or bad or overall what the problem exactly is for you - and what you would like to have differently??
I see the question “Where?”. But since it is unclear to me what exactly you mean here, I simply can’t answer the question.
Do you mean the address of the extension window? - That doesn’t have any meaning in itself and I don’t know why even want to know that? And it seems to be browser-specific… for example, in Vivaldi there is an address bar in the pop-out extension window:
So, I would think, that maybe should change to a browser who shows you that address bar. (though I still don’t understand, why you even want to have it, as it has no practical meaning for the function of the extension)
I think I’m beginning to understand what you want… It is not very well documented, but the “pop out extension window” is detached from the current website you are on.
Meaning, you can’t use the Fill-button (or click the item to auto-fill) as long as you use the popped-out window. I’m not sure if it is technically possible or impossible - but here is no current solution available for you, as it is like it it is at the moment. Not changeable.
So if you want that different, you would have to make a feature request about that. (I don’t know if one already exists for that)
(maybe e.g. @dwbit knows more if this would even be possible for a popped out window to do…)
You surprised me with this address, I can show it to you too.
directly on the SSD.
This line is EXTREMELY important for BW. You must highlight this line with a red frame and place it in the forum header, in HELP, and everywhere possible.
If an ordinary user does not know it, they WILL NOT be able to connect BW to the sidebar.
I have already mentioned this. But you do not read the latest posts and do not even pay attention to the important information you have.
Did I miss something? Explain how the connection of BW to the Sidebar is supposed to work without this line ? This long string looks complicated. Forcing users to use it to connect BW to the Sidebar feels somewhat unpolished in terms of design.
That is the first time in this (!) thread that you even mention a sidebar. Please give us a chance to understand what you are talking about.
So, what sidebar do you mean? I guess the browser… but which browsers? Not many browsers even offer a sidebar. And why would the address bar be important for that? (meaning: a browser that doesn’t support a sidebar, doesn’t support it - whether you have that address or not… and if we are speaking about coding it that it works, I guess we then are not speaking about an “ordinary user” anymore)
So again, it is unclear to me what exactly you mean here.
Ok. I will break it down into points and try to stop some of them for discussion in this thread:
In this thread, you, @Nail1684, showed the extension address, not me. I’ve known this line + 3 browsers for a long time, and I use it for the sidebar in different browsers. I didn’t ask a question about the “Extension Address.” Let’s stop here.
The question is “WHERE?” referring to the “Website Address” from which the “Window Detachment” occurs. “WHERE is the Website Address?” by which BW automatically searches for passwords.
Yeah, that’s only the local path to the extension, Vivaldi is showing here… If other browsers would show the address bar, they would probably all show the path of the browser extension on your machine…
Okay… but “known for a long time”… it’s not exactly secret knowledge. You can see the locations for the main browsers here in the Help Sites: Storage | Bitwarden Help Center (obviously in the section “browser extensions”)
Could you describe with different words what you mean here? Honestly I don’t understand the “where” question here?
And the window detachment occurs, as far as I know, from the extension itself (whatever code it exactly is) and doesn’t occur from a website address.
I guess with “by which BW automatically searches for password” you mean the autofill function? As I tried to explain before, the pop-out window has technical constraints here - and as far as I know - doesn’t allow for that kind of connection between the current website you are on in the browser and all the auto-fill functions of the extension.
(and apart from that, I still wouldn’t understand the question “where a website address is”… it remains in the browser’s address bar would be my best guess?!? – and again, it can’t be “taken over to the pop-out window”, as I think you hope it to be able?!?)
Ah. Yeah. I guess that’s impossible - as I wrote before - at least for now, and maybe “forever” as the pop-out comes with a detachment from the current website you are on.
(and again, the address bar itself is not the problem here, I think - it’s that the normal not-popped-out extension window is connected to the current website, and the popped-out-window isn’t - and maybe technically can’t be?!)
