Shortcut autofill for items with "master password reprompt" should ask for the master password

Feature Requests Password Manager
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Feature name

When items are configured to request “master password reprompt” and the user invokes autofill with a keyboard shortcut, the extension should ask for the master password instead of failing silently

Feature function

  • What will this feature do differently?
    Popup for the master password instead of failing silently

  • What benefits will this feature bring?
    Users won’t have to go to the extension to manually trigger an autofill

Related topics + references

  • Are there any related topics that may help explain the need and function of this feature?

    • In this topic unlocking the vault on autofill was introduced. Not having the same behaviour with “master password reprompt” items may be strange to the user.
    • In general, failing silently is not user friendly: the user will look at the extension, see that there is a saved password and wonder if the extension is broken

  • Are there any references to this feature or function on other platforms that may be helpful?

    • LastPass does this (can’t find a reference in their documentation, but you can try it out); I’m not sure about other clients

Notes

I tested this on Debian Linux 11 (bullseye), with Firefox 91.5.0esr (64-bit) and Google Chrome Version 97.0.4692.99 (Official Build) (64-bit).

I’m not sure if this behaviour is different on other platforms.

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This would be very useful to me. I wouldn’t even consider that this should be a “feature request”, but more as a default behavior.

3

This is brilliant. This has been such a major pain point since Master Password Re-prompt launched. Agreed with @simonsanchezart: it is a very unusual limitation.

I’ve written a comment on the BW’s official “autofill problems” GitHub issue, as requested by Bitwarden staff: maybe we don’t need to wait for a whole feature request.