After a few weeks of experiencing various issues with the Bitwarden extensions I’ve decided to kick it into touch. It started with the Android Chrome autofill continually informing me that Bitwarden was locked but, annoyingly, not allowing me to unlock it from the browser. I’d have to open and unlock the Bitwarden app and hope that it worked. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. On occasion uninstalling and reinstalling the extension worked but the same issue arose after a while.
Android Edge on another device then began to suffer from autofill problems in that the .com.microsoft.emmx URL kept being passed to the Bitwarden extension for every logon. I couldn’t find a fix for this and others have noticed the same bug.
On PC Edge I then had the endless ‘update password’ prompts for credentials that hadn’t changed. Again, many others have reported the same issue.
So that’s two extensions for Android browsers that are now problematic along with the extension for Edge on Windows 11. Subscription cancelled.
Looking at your whole text I’m not a 100% sure, but it seems you were using the browser extension on your mobile browsers – and just FYI, this usage is not even supported by Bitwarden.
You probably would have less issues on Android using the Android mobile app.
As far as I know, the Chromium browsers changed their autofill function. The “Chrome autofill integration” of the Android mobile app, together with enabling the following flag: #autofill-update-context-for-web-contents (on chrome://flags), which is possible since Chrome 140 Beta I think (and Chrome 141 “stable”) should do the trick. (for the latter issue only browser updates will fix this upstream bug of those Chromium browsers).
That was fixed with the “compatibility mode” of the mobile App, which only is temporary at the moment and will be replaced with an “automatic solution” in one of the next releases. (and this issue seemed to stem from tightening general autofill security which led to compatibility issues with a few mobile browsers like Edge, Opera and Samsung Internet)
Yeah, ongoing issue… personally I’m sure Bitwarden is in search for causes and possible solutions for this… as a temporary workaround, you can always deactivate those update/save popups entirely if you uncheck the respective options (Ask to add login / Ask to update existing login) in the browser extension by opening Settings → Notifications.
It’s the culmination of these issues that have made the tool a pain to use for some time now. I’ll test again in a few weeks time to see if the combination of any Bitwarden and browser issues have made a difference.
