When autofilling passwords the browser extension plays an annoying and distracting pop animation that makes the autofilled fields larger for a moment. It would be really nice if this animation could be disabled, either by default or as a toggleable option.
As noted in the thread linked below, this is also an accessibility concern. Fast scaling animations can trigger motion sickness in people with vestibular disorders.
As someone who is neurodivergent and suffers from sensory issues related to spatial orientation and movement, I can confirm this is both triggering and highly frustrating.
@trevorpetrie On further inspection, I do not see the old animations anymore, at least not in Chrome or Firefox in Windows 11. What operating system, browser, and browser extension version are you using? Do you have any way of making a screen recording, to ensure we are talking about the same thing?
Unfortunately, one vendor (Seclookup) tagged your link as âmaliciousâ in a VirusTotal scan. Maybe a false positive, but all the same, I personally donât feel comfortable clicking the link (for the same reasons, and out of an abundance of caution, I have also edited your post to make the URL non-clickable).
If you still want to help, perhaps you can convert the video to a GIF (which can be pasted right into a comment here, instead of linking a 3rd-party streaming service).
Hi, Iâve uploaded to streamable cause it was the first option of my google search, thereâs nothing wrong with the link, of course itâs not malicious, anyway, hereâs another upload of the same video that I had to convert to GIF. It took me about an hour of research to find this thread, I didnât waste my time creating my account to post malicious things here in the community, I did it because I need help to solve this issue too.
Thank you for taking the time to create the GIF. That looks more or less like I remember the animations from before. However, in versions 2024.6.2 (Chrome) and 2024.6.3 (Firefox) on Windows 11 (23H2), I no longer experience any auto-fill animations. What operating system, browser, and browser extension version are you using?
I do still see references to animated autofill in the source code on GitHub, so Iâm not sure exactly why Iâm not seeing animations, while you are seeing them.
I also found an active PR that may offer some hope for the future:
The extensions are version 2024.6.2 for Chrome and Edge, and version 2024.6.3 for Firefox. The operating system is Windows 11, version 23H2. The animation issue occurs on all three browsers. This seems to be a bug; there should have been a toggle for this animation from the beginning of the development process
What operating system, browser, and browser extension version are you using?
i donât know if you still read any comments in this thread but iâd like to let you know my information:
Edge: Version 136.0.3240.92 (Official build) (64-bit)
Bitwarden: 2025.5.1
i have checked the update notes of bitwarden and according to them iâm either 3 versions behind (2025.5.3 is the latest) or bitwarden hasnât been updated for edge browsers yet.
even though thereâs an accessibility option to either turn this really annoying autofill animation on and off but in my case it doesnât have any effect.
Thanks for writing, because this prompted me to investigate further â and I found a potential solution/work-around (or at least an explanation for why I personally never see the autofill animations on my system).
In Windows 11, go to Start > Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects. There, you can disable the option âAnimation Effectsâ. Doing so suppresses all gratuitous animations on the operating-system level, including Bitwardenâs autofill animations.
Other operating systems may have a similar setting.
and, do you like the rough scrolling? i feel like, it kinda hurts my eyes when scrolling through webpages if âanimation effectsâ are disabled. what about you?
hm, thatâs strange. just tested it on both, firefox (139.0.1) and chrome (136.0.7103.116) on win11 (24H2) and in none of them does the accesibility option for it work
the only 2 fixes i have now are;
disabling animation effects in the windows accessibility settings - makes browser scrolling rough and eye hurting though.
using this user script with either tampermonkey or uBO:
(function() {
âuse strictâ;
// Create a style element
const style = document.createElement('style');
// Set the CSS content
style.textContent = `
.com-bitwarden-browser-animated-fill {
animation: none !important;
-webkit-animation: none !important;
}
`;
// Append the style element to the document head
document.head.appendChild(style);
When I wrote my comments a year ago, I had not yet realized that the reason why I have not been seeing the Bitwarden autofill animations was simply that I had long ago disabled animations system-wide, using the Windows Accessibility settings (as described here).
Thanks for sharing your script as an alternative work-around.
and, do you like the rough scrolling? i feel like, it kinda hurts my eyes when scrolling through webpages if âanimation effectsâ are disabled. what about you?
or do you have a workaround for the rough scrolling in browsers?
Sorry, I missed your question. Frankly, Iâm not sure what you mean by ârough scrollingâ. To me, if I scroll a webpage by sliding the scroll bar up and down, the appearance seems the same whether I have enabled âanimation effectsâ in the OS or not. Also, I do most of my scrolling using a scroll wheel, which advances the webpage 3 lines for each âstopâ of the wheel; thus, I rarely use continuous scrolling, which may also help.
Full disclosure: I have made customizations to the Performance settings (which include visual effects) under Windows Settings > System > About > Advanced System Settings. Perhaps some of these settings are overriding the âAnimation effectsâ setting on my computer.
In Windows 11, go to Start > Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects. There, you can disable the option âAnimation Effectsâ. Doing so suppresses all gratuitous animations on the operating-system level, including Bitwardenâs autofill animations.