As I got the notification, your answer addresses my post: I just wanted to know, which animation is in question here, that should be “adjusted” or “disabled” (like it is written in the title of this feature request) – and I wondered, whether this:
… is the animation that is meant – or rather: whether this is the only animation that is meant here?
(I know, there are other animations in the extension – but I assumed, the other animations can be disabled by Settings → Appearance → Turn off “Show animations” → or are there still other animations, than the GIF shows and that can’t be turned off by the Setting? = that was and still is my question)
This feature request started out as a proposal to disable (or speed up) the transition animations that are shown when navigating from one view to another within the browser extension, but after only 7 posts in the thread, the focus of discussion switched to the autofill animation (seen in this GIF). In 2024 (PR #10005 and PR #11157), Bitwarden did implement a toggle to disable the page transition animations in the browser extension (option “Show animations”, found under Settings > Appearance). For these reasons, I have revised the feature request title to “Option to adjust or disable autofill animation” (old title was: “Option to adjust or disable UI animation”).
Interestingly, after the “Show animations” toggle PR was merged, developer @cagonzalez created PR #11292 (“Modify Autofill Animation”), with the specific intent to redesign the autofill visual feedback to be “less jarring”. However, for unknown reasons, this PR was closed by @cagonzalez on Nov. 1, 2024.
Another relevant insight from the PR discussions on Github is that the “Show animations” toggle was deliberately given a vague name so that the same toggle could be used (in the future) for disabling/enabling autofill animations and any other animations that may be introduced in the UI (see July 8, 2024 comment by @dflinn).
It would be interesting to get status report and outlook from the Bitwarden developers and/or Product Team (@cagonzalez, @dflinn, @gtran?).
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know we’ve merged an update to include more autofill animation experiences controlled by the “Show animations” user setting (in “Appearance” in Settings) for the browser extension.
The details can be found here:
These changes are tentatively expected for the next browser client release around the start of May (2026.3.0 and earlier does NOT include the updated setting scope).
