Having issues with the Authenticator App functionality of the extension not working with the new ‘Simple Autofill’ option, wherein opening the browser extension and clicking on an identity, will autofill the form instead of opening the identity.
I use the form suggestions which appear underneath the actual form - and these usually work great… just not always with the OTP (or whatever the 30-second codes are called). In this scenario, I’ll have to click the extension, open it, and manually copy the code. The ‘simple autofill’ has changed this, so it automatically inputs what it thinks you want - and though I’ve gotten occasional ‘couldn’t copy this’ errors, it MOSTLY works good. But I already have an autofill method that does that - the autofill suggestions in the form, and the ‘simple autofill’ DOESN’T seem to work with some pages’ OTP setup.
The best example I can give of this, is for vault.bitwarden itself. We use MFA, but since account recovery doesn’t wipe 2FA, and we’ve had issues with Microsoft Authenticator pairings failing, I setup an identity within my vault, with my 2FA, which I can access using a good PIN. Basically, my browser/laptop is a 2nd factor. The on-page autofill has never really worked for this, and I’m used to opening the extension and copying it. But now, I can’t do that - it’ll just keep trying to input it - mirroring the failure I usually see when trying to select an on-page suggestion.
Which, really, if it was just me, I can just get used to clicking the …, and ‘view item’. But it’s not just me - we’re enterprise. And I reallly can’t handle 50 tickets about this. Anyone know if this can be disabled? The autofill suggestions are a little unclear to me - there’s a ‘Copy TOTP automatically’ setting, but this does NOT seem to control it, despite sort of describing it.
Unfortunately, for now it seems this can’t be disabled or reverted.
Have a look into this reopened feature request:
PS:
If I understand you correctly, you were referring to the “copy to clipboard” function here. FWIW, this should still be possible via the copy button(s):
‘If I understand you correctly, you were referring to the “copy to clipboard” function here. FWIW, this should still be possible via the copy button(s):’
I’m not entirely sure what browser I was using before, but on checking this now - the copy button is indeed there again. Maybe I was having a browser issue or a stroke - but I remember that missing is specifically why I opened this.
Thought of this again today, after encountering some more surprising Autofill behaviour. At the vault.bitwarden.com login page, the username appears as a single input field, and the password field only appears after submitting the u/n. This sort of implies they’re separate forms - but it turns out, they aren’t. If you supply a username, and then select a credential from the Extension to autofill the password - the username you previously submit will be replaced by the username of the entry you clicked. The same behaviour you’d see for login forms exposing both - except you can’t actually tell the username was changed, because at that point, it’s hidden (though apparently, it IS just hidden - it’s NOT a separate component, like the UI suggests)
So… while I THOUGHT I was inputting account2, then trying account1’s pass against it - I was actually just inputting account2, then autofilling account1’s usernamme AND pass. I don’t even want to share how long it took me to figure out
