So I chose to lock my vault after 30mins for higher security (vault timeout).
But now when I visit a website and the vault is locked it is very time consuming to unlock it every time.
Is there any option that if the vault is locked and he detects a website with login credential that he asks me if I would like to unlock the vault and put in the login details? At the moment I have to go up in my browser, open up the Bitwarden Addon, and then click on “unlock”.
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Hello @skrippi and welcome,
I tend to use the keyboard shortcuts when using Bitwarden on the PC.
When in your web browser, if you load a webpage that you have a saved login for. You can use the browser keyboard shortcuts to auto-fill the login. If the extension is locked then a new tab will automatically load to prompt for your master password login. Once entered the tab is closed and you are returned to your open page and the extension will unlock and load your credentials for the page.
You can even make the login process faster with PIN unlock, or biometrics depending on your security profile.
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I used to mess with this too, but in the end using PIN unlock is the way to go for me. I can quickly enter 8 digits and not deal with all the customizations. Remember; for security your vault will log you out IF the PIN is entered incorrectly 5 times. That is a safety feature.
But still theres so much clicking. I would use the biometry (fingerprint) for logging in. But I want to visit a website and as soon as bitwarden detects a login field the popup for pin/fingerprint should pop up. No need to do some keyboard shortcuts or anything else before. Just ask me for pin and fill in the credentials.
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@skrippi Does enabling the option “Ask for biometrics on launch” eliminate any mouse clicks for you?
This is not possible, because Bitwarden is not going to know whether you have any saved credentials available for a given website if your browser extension is locked. This is because the website URLs are stored in an encrypted format, and decryption doesn’t happen until you unlock the vault.
Thus, if your vault is locked, you must initiate the autofilling action (using the inline autofill menus, the extension window, the right-click menu, or the keyboard shortcut). If your vault is unlocked, you can use “Autofill on page load” to automatically autofill login credentials for any website found in your vault.
@skrippi Just tickle the browser plugin before you go to the target website. Meaning, click the browser plugin so it drops down it’s interface. Then either select the site from the browser plugin itself, or go to the website on a different tab using your bookmarks.
Any interaction with the browser plugin resets the lock timer.