This is an issue for me on web with chrome or firefox.
However, if the password needs to be put in twice, often bitwarden doesn’t do it, and I have no option but to do this the manual way. Generator history is not luck because it shows 8 or 9 passwords generated at the same time even if I haven’t used it for hours. Is it in some special paste buffer?
Same thing if the password rules need to be changed. Has to be done manually? Often when I do it manually bitwarden doesn’t realize a password change has occured and doesn’t even prompt if I want to update the password.
Am I missing something silly? Searching didn’t find any answers, but perhaps my wording isn’t Bitwardeny enough.
It’s a well-known secret that auto-adding or auto-updating your credentials can be unreliable with Bitwarden. So, it’s recommended that you create a login entry and modify/save it directly in the extension. Then, use autofill (for adding and modifying) and copy-and-paste/drag-and-drop (for modifying) to fill out the account creation/password change form.
So, turn off these notification settings and use the extension to make changes first before autofilling into the form.
Having trouble fully understanding your post, but from the wording of your topic title and some of your described symptoms, I gather that you are using the inline pop-up menus to autofill passwords, and that newly generated passwords (created using the pop-up suggestion) are not being saved in your vault. If that is a fair description of the problem you are facing, then the following bug fix (which was merged last week, and should therefore presumably be available in the next release) may offer some relief:
In addition, you may want to avail yourself of the configuration modification that is suggested in this comment:
Thanks for the replies, even if it isn’t what I wanted to hear.
Wow, if I knew this basic functionality was busted going in I would have gone elsewhere. I guess most people don’t think about it as they don’t change passwords or add sites very often. I’m going through 80 that are old and have weak weak passwords and having various different failures on about half of them. I even had a failure on the web client that said cipher expired and then the app closed, and the last few changes I made didn’t save.
Lastpass worked so well, compared to this, I just wish I could trust them.
I have encountered this same problem (not saving passwords) on many different password managers over the years. It’s not just Bitwarden, and none of them are perfect. Here is a reddit from yesterday complaining about Google password manager not getting it right.
Even before I switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden, I had adopted my “first update the manager, then the website” approach due to it mooting the reliability concern.
Update the manager first sounds great, except 30 percent of the sites I am hitting have some arse headed password rules that make me go back and redo it all over again.
Don’t do it first, but both parallel. I always have the View/Edit item window open and drag & drop the newly generated password to the website. If the password is not accepted by the site, I can quickly generate a new password, store that and drag & drop it again…
On a password change doesn’t that cause you to lose the password if it doesn’t generate something usable or if the site is crap, which 80% of the websites seem to be?
I’m not sure if I understand the question… because it’s no problem to loose a password that isn’t usable … and if it was a password I used and stored in the login item (and “overwrite” it accidentally) → every login item has a password history: Password Manager FAQs | Bitwarden
Maybe try it without the inline pop-up menu? I never use the inline menus, and I do not ever have nearly as much trouble as you creating and updating passwords.
I have stopped using the popup ‘generate password’ selection, it is totally useless. I use the right click generate password (copied).
But part of the problem is getting a password generated that is secure when a site doesn’t allow all 4 options, or limits special character and such. You have to reconfigure the generator, make a password, and then go back and reconfigure the generator again. It would be nice if the popup allowed you to change settings on the fly.
The other thing I found (50 or so passwords in now) is that even if I pick edit after changing the password (the little bitwarden thing that offers to save the password or let you edit the site), it has updated the password. So far it has been correct every time, but it should change the password when I select edit, only when I select update. Strange behavior.
BTW, not all of my bitching is just because of Bitwardens short comings. The idiots who write webpages are on the top of my hate list. Some don’t let you change the password, they make you go through a forgotten password cycle. Some hide the password change. Few make it easy. I just don’t understand web developers, they spend a week finding the proper blue but can’t seem to make it easy to figure out how to change the password.
… and if it was a password I used and stored in the login item (and “overwrite” it accidentally) → every login item has a password history: