Biometric unlock stopped working properly. So I had chosen Biometric Unlock but extension always ask for master password. I have to now manually select Unlock with Biometric this is not the way it worked before. The next problem is when I tell it to manually unlock with Biometric the Windows Hello …

[image] molitar: Please fix this behavior. Please see the pinned announcement: Bitwarden is aware of an issue with biometric unlock when using the Firefox and Opera browser extension. The issue will be resolved as soon as the 2025.6.0 version of the browser extension is approved and availab…

@adap Welcome to the forum! I just set it up with a Windows Hello PIN and could unlock the Firefox extension as expected. (Win 11, 24H2, 26100.6584 – BW desktop app 2025.9.0 – BW Firefox extension 2025.8.2) So what exactly doesn’t work for you? What versions do you have? Did you try to set it up…

Half the time for some reason the desktop no longer will have it prompt for password. Unless I open the app and log it in than log back out it stops reacting with the biometrics login so I have just been using PIN instead. Don’t know why desktop app appears to stop reacting with the Firefox extensio…

Slightly different issue, but related. For some reason unlock with biometrics only works if it’s the first thing you do. If you don’t do it immediately, after you have a few tabs open, a couple of hours in, when you go to unlock, your only option is master password, which is highly annoying. Restar…

[image] user125: (Also, if you’ve already unlocked the desktop app, why do you have to unlock the extension as well?) There is a feature request for that. Go vote for it! [image] Login to browser extensions when logging into desktop app and vice versa Password Manage…

The windows hello pin is not what this forum is discussing. I was talking about the biometric login not working. At one point I was able to get it to initialize but even when I did it would still require me to login with my password. Now I can’t even get the finger print popup to be prompted to set …

[image] adap: The windows hello pin is not what this forum is discussing. I was talking about the biometric login not working. I see what you mean – but Windows Hello PIN also falls under “biometric unlock”: “Set up unlock with biometrics for Windows via Windows Hello using PIN, facial recog…

@molitar To be honest, I don’t understand what you wrote here back then. [image] molitar: Half the time for some reason the desktop no longer will have it prompt for password. What is that supposed to mean? [image] molitar: Unless I open the app and log it in than log back out it stops …

If I don’t open the app and unlock it at least once the biometric won’t work it seems to lose the capability to communicate with the web extension. As long as it’s running it should not have an issue for extension to communicate with it for the Biometric.

Firefox Extension Biometric Unlock broken

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There is a feature request for that. Go vote for it!