It would be nice if the browser extension UI detected when a user had caps lock enabled while typing in their master password and notified them in the UI. Here’s an example of a browser extension detecting this.
This would prevent the scenario of a user typing their master password in over and over (assuming they’ve typo’d it) until finally clicking the “eye” icon and seeing that the case of the password they’re typing in has been reversed due to caps lock.
I just ran into this with the Windows app as well. I would love to have a notification that caps lock is on when typing in passwords.
I often have this problem (I am a fast typer and sometimes Caps-Lock is turned on).
Such a hint would prevent that I have to type the master password several times.
An easy to implement feature that increases the usability a lot!
This feature will be 100% useful.
As the master password is often long, it’s frustrating when you try to login and wonder what you did wrong when all along you had caps long on! 100% useful feature.
When will this option be implemented?
I hope Bitwarden implements this simple but very useful detail soon!
Interesting approach that Facebook took once:
Facebook actually accepts three forms of your password:
Your original password.
Your original password with the first letter capitalized. This is only for mobile devices, which sometimes capitalize the first character of a word.
Your original password with the case reversed, for those with a caps lock key on.
I guess this isn’t feasible for the master password of a vault though.
It might not happen often, but WHEN it happens that caps lock is enabled, a very visible warning would be greatly appreciated. Because master passwords tend to be long, it is extremely frustrating to re-type them in such a case.
Or maybe be innovative and offer an invert-case function? Facebook once did similarly, as per correspeonding feature request for the browser extension:
It would be helpful with input to all password/hidden text fields, not just the one for master password.
@ittybitty Thanks for the ping! – I just found that there is an existing feature request on the same topic, so I moved this over.
