The lack of a confirmation warning before exiting the popup that shows when creating or modifying an entry makes it easy for someone to inadvertently fail to save login information.
ex.
user clicks new, popup appears to create new entry
user enters username, password
user submits that information to the desired site and creates the account
user returns to bitwarden and clicks the mouse anywhere outside of the popup, the popup closes without saving the information and the user has now lost the account information.
a confirmation / warning window that there is/could be unsaved information would prevent this from occurring, as would preventing the popup from being closed except through the cancel/save buttons.
I’m noting this as I had two browser windows open, and when I went to switch back to the window with bitwarden open I clicked outside the popup to bring focus to that window and it closed the popup, and I lost my login information.
Yes, this is a long-standing irritation in the browser extension — there is an active Feature Request topic that you can vote on, here:
In Firefox, you can mitigate this issue by using the Sidebar feature, and in other browsers, you can create a free-standing browser extension window (which does not close when the focus moves), by clicking the “pop-out” button in the upper left corner:
However, personally, I recommend learning a new, better way to create new entries in Bitwarden. First, disable the options “Ask to add login” and “Ask to update existing login” (under Settings > Options).
Then, whenever you want to register for a new account on some website, use the following procedure:
Ctrl+Shift+Y (or click the Bitwarden icon ) to open the browser extension.
Click (or “Add new login” link) to create a partially pre-filled login item.
In the browser extension, enter desired username (or use options for generating a username).
Generate a random password (click in the Password field, and then click “Select” in the upper right corner of the Password Generator screen).
Click “Save” in the upper right corner.
Autofill by clicking the name of the newly created vault item (now displayed at the top of the browser extension’s “Tab” view), which transfers the login credentials into the website’s account registration form
Submit the account registration form.
With the above method, you are guaranteed never to “lose” any login information, and if you tally up all mouse clicks, you will find out that this method is actually faster/more efficient than the conventional way of creating an account (entering information into the website form instead of entering the information in the browser extension as recommended above).
) to open the browser extension.
(or “Add new login” link) to create a partially pre-filled login item.
in the Password field, and then click “Select” in the upper right corner of the Password Generator screen).