The 2025.12.1 version of the Bitwarden Password Manager browser extension seems to have had a regression in its search functionality. Whereas before the 2025.12.1 version, a search query like > *foo* worked correctly, returning all entries containing at least one foo-containing term, now, in the 2025.12.1 version of the Bitwarden browser extension, this form of query never returns any results. Experimenting, it seems that the leading asterisk is the problem. I realize that leading asterisks in search terms are not great for Lunr’s performance, but sometimes I really do want to use a search term with a leading asterisk, performance be damned.
Upon further experimentation, it seems that the regression occurred sometime before the 2025.12.1 version. All I know for sure is that the problem did not exist in the 2025.7.0 version, and does exist in the 2025.12.1 version.
Thank you for the report. As this seems like a regression and not a feature request, could you please open an issue at Bitwarden client issues. The Bitwarden team can then look into reproduction and triage the issue.
@neil1 Personally, I cannot reproduce this in browser extension version 2025.12.0; I will keep my eyes open for this behavior when I get updated to 2025.12.1.
In the meantime, there are some other fun Lunr sear bugs reported here:
Update:
I was able to manually force an update of my Chrome extension, but I still cannot reproduce the issue:
