Generate password from right click menu

Feature Requests Password Manager
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Hi,
I am using Bitwarden for a while now, and recently I got a LastPass account from work. I’ve noticed that in LastPass, I have the option to generate a secure password when creating an account just by clicking “generate secure password”.
While using Bitwarden, I have to open the app, go to Generator and get my password. It would be much more handy to have this option from the right click menu (in a field).

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This option is already there - right click in the field > “Bitwarden” > “Generate password (copied)”:

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looks like bad naming, this probably should be called “Generate and copy password”

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Thank you for your replies. Indeed, the option is there and the name is not the best. I thought that the option will copy the password after I generate it from Bitwarden :man_facepalming:

I was expecting to automatically fill in the field with the generated password, not just copy it to clipboard

Thanks again for the clarification!

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I’m confused. When I right-click that option, nothing happens. In LP, a popup would appear with a generated password. I’m using FF - is it blocking something?

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Same here, I tried this twice and nothing happened. I’m on Chrome. Either the feature is broken, or it does something completely different.

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Bitwarden is not LastPass, and does not work the same way. As noted in the comments above yours, the naming of the option may be a little confusing (some suggested improvements to the option labeling were suggested in a previous thread, as well).

What this option does, the password is generated, and (silently) placed in your clipboard. Thus, you can just paste the clipboard contents into the password field.

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Thanks for explaining this! And yes, I know it’s not LP. But I looked at this page and it didn’t tell me what the right-click would do, so all I had to go on was what I’d seen in LP.

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Fair enough. Some of the features are not well-documented. But you can always ask for help from the user community by posting here!

Also, you might consider alternative work flows. For example, personally I hardly ever use the right-click menu. If I’m on a registration form and want to create a login item with a random password, I start by opening the browser extension and clicking :heavy_plus_sign: (or “Add a login”) to add a new vault item for the current site, then I enter my username (in the browser extension) and click :arrows_counterclockwise: in the password field (in the browser extension) to get to the generator. If no adjustments are needed (to password length, character set, etc.), I just click “Select”, and then “Save”. At this point, I will see the new login item “card” in the browser extension, and I can just click on it once to transfer the information to the website registration form — I then submit the form, and I’m done.