I find these new zero delay tool tips really irritating. It would be great if there would be an option to deactivate them. I guess putting them on a 1 second delay would also be fine, since then they wouldn’t pop up all over the place when I move the mouse over the GUI.
Or if they would have a HTML class name unique to tool tips I can write myself a userContent.css to hide them.
Hey there, the team will be updating the tooltips shortly to introduce a delay, thanks for your patience!
I fully agree with @panzi, and have expended my last remaining vote to support this request. Also, to be clear, we are talking primarily about the new (as of 2025.11.x) “pop-up bubbles”, not the standard browser-rendered tooltips (which are smaller, rectangular, and have a delay). To avoid confusion, I have revised the topic title (old title was: “Option to deactivate tool tips”).
These new tool tips are intrusive (popping up with no delay, and blocking a lot of UI real-estate), and they introduce new bugs, produce ugly clashes in the UI design language (mixing standard rectangular tooltips with the new bubble tips), and hog valuable CPU resources; most importantly — the new bubble pop-ups are completely unnecessary for an experienced user.
Introducing the delay will help a little, but there really needs to be an option to disable the “bubble” tips altogether. The tips in the bubbles serve only to help brand new users get accustomed to the UI. After using the Bitwarden browser extension for more than 10 minutes, does anybody still need a reminder that the top left < button means “Back”??? The other bubble “tips” are equally uninformative for someone who is already familiar with the UI. The bubbles may be helpful when on-boarding a new user, but we need a way to remove these training wheels.
I looked at the source of the add-on and found HTML classes that I could use for a userContent.css and fixed it for myself with this:
@-moz-document url-prefix("moz-extension://ffd499d6-b82e-4bcb-ba7b-9ffb92c168d4/popup/index.html") {
.bit-tooltip-container,
.bit-tooltip {
display: none !important;
}
}
This information will be useful for Firefox users who are technically inclined, but all others will want a PR that implements an option “Show hints”, which can be disabled under Settings > Appearance.
Perhaps some intrepid community member can vibe-code this and submit a PR…
Please no vibe coding in a password manager!
I couldn’t agree more with your whole post. Too many times I wonder lately what were the Bitwarden developers thinking? This is one (more) of them.
And if I also take into account the quantity of bugs and regressions that are included with every new release of the browser extension, I come to the conclusion that the Bitwarden devlopment team can not be using his own password manager.
I truly think that software QA at Bitwarden is reaching a new low with every release.
I get the impression that lately, Bitwarden has been expending a lot development resources towards on-boarding of new users (perhaps in response to demands from enterprise customers?). Unfortunately, this has often come at the expense of long-time Bitwarden users — who do not need their client app UIs permanently polluted by training features, and could instead benefit from development of features to benefit power-users (such as a real “compact mode”, or keyboard navigation, or a customizable vault view).
This is a sentiment that I’ve seen expressed with increasing frequency in the forum. For the benefit of anybody reading this who agrees, I’ll take this opportunity to promote the following feature request:
Adding my vote to having a switch to turn this off completely. It’s great if you are first user, but after that they are just a nuisance.
It would be like logging into a new web app, and having to go through the intro tour every single time… even if you are an expert.
Hi,
I just made an account here just to say that these tooltips should definitely be optional. It’s a shame I can’t vote in this topic as I lack “trust”..
Having a tooltip “Delete” for an icon of a red garbage bin is absolute nonsense, same with the three dots “More options” or the previously mentioned “Back” tooltip.
Even if I was a new user I would immediately disable these tips, as they are mostly useless, too big, and the lack of a delay in appearing really jarring.
Well, anyway, have a nice day.
@dkbr Welcome to the forum!
You just have to spend a little more time (< 30 min) in the forum reading a few additional topics and comments. Then your forum membership status will be automatically elevated from “new user” to “basic user”, which unlocks your voting privileges.
Thanks for the info. In the meantime I’ve added the css rule panzi mentioned. With some AI help I found out where this piece of css goes.
/* Disable Bitwarden tooltips in Firefox
SETUP INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Go to about:config and set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true
2. Find your Firefox profile folder (about:support → Profile Folder → Open Folder)
3. Create a folder named "chrome" (lowercase) if it doesn't exist
4. Create/edit file "userContent.css" inside the chrome folder
5. Get your Bitwarden extension UUID from about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
6. Replace YOUR-BITWARDEN-UUID-HERE below with your actual UUID
7. Restart Firefox
*/
@-moz-document url-prefix("moz-extension://YOUR-BITWARDEN-UUID-HERE/popup/index.html") {
.bit-tooltip-container,
.bit-tooltip {
display: none !important;
}
}
You mean disable the new buggy tooltip feature that goes crazy?
Why would you want to do that?
The two bugs (#17481 and #17498) will presumably be fixed at some point, and reportedly, a non-zero pop-up delay will be implemented. However, I do hope that Bitwarden heeds the opinions expressed here, and make it possible for non-Firefox users to disable these training tips altogether.
Your UI/UX devs would have told you that if they were properly involved in development/testing BEFORE deploying new features. Please look into hiring someone and listen to them!