These are some small quality of life improvements that would be nice to have across the extension / android app / Windows app. Don’t need fancy graphics or animations, just some usability improvements. I’ve been using BW for many years but recently tried most of the competition, and while I’m sticking with BW because it’s overall the best package, there are some small UI/feature annoyance that would really make the experience a lot more frictionless and polished.
Browser extension:
Auto-popout New Login Window
Add an option to ‘auto pop-out’ the extension window when creating a new login (+). This way the window won’t close and reset when going back and forth from the website to Bitwarden when generating usernames and passwords. The window can then auto-close when the login is saved. And yes, I understand I can manually pop it out first, if I remember. Currently, if you create a new login for a site, generate the password, then focus back on the site, the new login window will close and reset.
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New/edit item pops-out BW window and shows new item page. Save item saves and closes the pop-out.
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At the very least, add a ‘pop-out’ button on the new login page or warn that you have ‘unsaved’ changes and it’ll close and you’ll lose them.
Edit button in login list
- Add an edit button to the list of logins instead of clicking the card button, then edit button.
Option to save only trimmed domain/subdomain URIs instead of the whole link
Tab & Vault sections
What is the purpose of having the “Tab” and Vault tabs? Why are my credit cards and identities always shown on the tab page and not something like favourites? Actually what’s the purpose of having the Vault tab at all? Can easily show the folders below all the other stuff on “Tab” page.
- Merge Tab/Vault pages and choose which items you want to pin/favourite below the detected logins sorted by the item category
- Vault items have yet a different set of buttons (pressing the item opens the ‘card’, where the card button is on the TAB page, opens the site).
- Search result items have the same icons as vault (and not main tab)
- Favourites only show on the vault page
- Hide/Option to hide Cards and Identities on tab page
- Warn if you have unsaved changes on new items or items that are being edited if you click away from the window - what’s the point of the cancel button if clicking anywhere outside of the window will close and cancel anyways (this is where the auto pop-out would come in handy)
Button Location Consistencies
- Pop-out button is in a different spot on the ‘settings’ tab than everywhere else.
- Button/layout locations between each of the separate platforms Android/Windows/Extension is also different.
Android app:
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Search button on the bottom menu - or better yet have an auto-focused search bar when launching the app as an option.
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Add TOTP ‘enter from image/from screen’ option - not just camera
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Hide ‘ownership’ in new item page if only one account is present
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Creating a new login from a browser/app prompt should open in a separate Bitwarden instance - this is again so you can go back/forth between the original page that you’re viewing and login creation.
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Warn that you have unsaved changes on the card (right now back just exits the edit window)
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Fix bug where opening the BW window from an app/browser to look at logins freezes and spins indefinitely. (Workaround is to go back, open the BW app separately, press sync under the 3-dot menu) then try again.
Windows app:
- Main use case (for me) for this one is to provide biometric unlocking support for extension - would be nice for the extension to be able to do this by itself.
- Delete key doesn’t delete an entry
- Add attachments by dragging files into the window PLEASE
- Can’t select multiple logins for bulk functions. Generally editing/organizing logins is tedious, especially with no quick-keyboard buttons for edit/save/delete etc.
- Login list constantly refreshes to the top
- Awkward placement of New/Edit/Copy/Delete buttons especially on a maximized window. Can these be moved at the top to the right of the search bar to make it more compact? Add keyboard shortcuts for these.
- Allow resizing of login list or at least in maximized mode auto-resize to fit content. Right now there is a LOT of empty space around the right side login view.
- Integrate shortcuts to open window, quick search etc - One of 1Passwords nicer features is their desktop app’s quick search bar.
I haven’t tried the IOS apps so if people want to add that’d be great