I made a suggestion here about an alternative fill-button-solution: Usability issues (UX) in redesigned UI (2024.12.0) - #168 by Nail1684 (the edited screenshot at the end of my post shows it best - though no award for my amateurish design skills)
@Browsing0851 Welcome to the forum!
I don’t disagree with you, but I would like to clarify that this situation is only occurring when you have enabled Unlock with Biometrics.
If your browser extension is set up to unlock with a master password, then the master password input field is already displayed and in focus, as soon as the unlock prompt popup appears.
Likewise, if your browser extension is set up to unlock with a PIN, then the PIN input field is already displayed and in focus, as soon as the unlock prompt popup appears.
But it makes sense that if you already are required to click an Unlock with biometrics button to initiate biometric unlock (when enabled), then it would be beneficial to also display the master password input field (or a PIN input field, if applicable), in case the user prefers not to use biometrics that time.
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No point that I made in my comment started that way.
No one questioned this. At least I didn’t.
I’m starting to think that you didn’t read my comment very carefully.
Well, sorry to see it, but now you’re 0 for 3 in reading comprehension. A bit worrisome for someone who is an instructor of sorts.
I did not claim that the context menu is the “preferred” autofilling method, I merely mentioned it as one of several autofilling techniques provided by Bitwarden. I know that there are some users who do use the context menu option, because I have corresponded with them on this forum. The recommended method for autofilling is by keyboard shortcut, although I understand that the inline autofill menus are also very popular.
I raised that concern in the context of a discussion of whether viewing or autofilling should be the preferred action if the consistency in UX behavior is retained (i.e., if clicking an item name always results in the same action — either autofilling always, or viewing the item always). In that context, clicking an item that does not have a URI match can cause credentials to be autofilled into a phishing page, or potentially cause sensitive information to be autofilled into a chat windows or otherwise leak vault secrets that the user did not intend to autofill.
Glad that you’ve read and agreed with at least one of the points I made.
That’s where I’m at now too. I’ve installed the last working version but that puts me into dealbreaker territory – I won’t pay for something that gets to that point.
My subscription auto-renews in February. If I’m still having to use 2024.11.2 by then that renewal will be turned off.
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I’m OK with the new look, but yes, the new browser extension is slow that I’m thinking about moving entirely to Apple Passwords and cancelling my Bitwarden subscription
@snoblenet That sounds like you may be a victim of this: Chrome extension takes forever to load UI after authenticating and is extremely slow and unresponsive And that started with the old browser extension and seems to be not related to the new extension (but seems to occur there also for now).
Yes, some delay issue had started manifesting already in the old version, but I’m fairly sure that is coincidental, and that there is a new or additional delay in the new UI.
In the old UI, the Vault tab only showed favorited items and items that did not have an assigned folder, it did not show the entire vault (“All Items”). Interestingly, if the number of items with no folder exceeded 100 items, then the items were no longer displayed in the Vault view, but were instead rendered as a folder named “No Folder”. In a Reddit comment, @kspearrin indicated that this behavior was implemented due to concerns regarding the “performance of loading the entire vault on the screen”.
Now, in the new UI, there no longer is any safeguard to prevent loading of >100 vault items at once, so it is no surprise that users who have a large number of items will experience significant slowdowns when first opening the browser extension.
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I really like it. Once I turned on quick copy actions to get my individual copy buttons back, it works just fine for me.
No performance problems either, with nearly 600 items in the vault (Chrome/Kubuntu and Chrome/Windows)
By trying to update the “outdated” look it now looks even more outdated!! Referring to the extension here.
I literally created an account here to come and say this, having to click twice for the password is ridiculous and making it cumbersome like LastPass.
Also having to actually click ‘fill’ to auto-populate the login is a pain vs previously I just had to click anywhere on the horizontal tab.
The new design is also so ugly and feels 1990s or something.
All this is re the browser extension I haven’t really had to use the mobile one much yet.
Bitwarden was glorious before! Please revert!
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Enable “Show quick copy actions on Vault” under Settings > Appearance.
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Why can’t there just be more themes to choose from?
• New cartoon theme (light)
• New cartoon theme (dark)
• Classic theme (light)
• Classic theme (dark)
Problem solved.
All this trouble for nothing.
Let customers choose the theme they want.
Case closed.
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GREAT - now we have the two copy buttons back.
Now please invert the logic: make the quick copy actions default (for all old users, who still haven’t stumbled over the new design) and maybe the “slow copy actions” an option in Appearance (if you really insist on it)
I’m yet another formerly-happy paid Bitwarden user who joined this community out of frustration with the UI redesign. One complaint I haven’t seen above:
- I can no longer change the owner of an item from the Edit (or View) screen; the dropdown is present, but always grayed out.
- Increasingly many URIs are not Websites—mobile app URIs (like
androidapp://com.airbnb.android) are quite common. Heck, even a website URI is not a “website”. - I actually quite dislike the persistence for the most part. When I open the plugin window, I usually want to be taken to the vault so I can see options for the current “Website”. The only time I don’t want this is if I was in the middle of editing an item (which was really my only complaint about the old UI, and is the only thing this redesign improved).
- Changing how many things both work and look all at once is a surefire way to throw people off. The older, less tech-savvy members of the org are going to struggle and likely be less willing to use this now.
- Not important, but I can select SSH key in the Type dropdown, even though those aren’t supported just yet (I know they’re coming soon).
I’ve also agreed with every complaint I’ve seen so far:
- The new copy menu—the option to revert it is nice, but it needs to be the default again, so I don’t need to fix that for everyone in the org on every device.
- My vision is pretty good, but even I find the text difficult to read. A couple people in the org won’t even be able (or willing) to use it at all anymore.
- Somehow, even though everything is smaller, it also manages to take up more room. I had to enable Compact mode and Wide width just to fit everything in the window that already fit comfortably before the redesign.
- Always showing All items is cluttered and a potential security concern.
- The tiny Fill button instead of using the whole item as a fill button is significantly worse for multiple reasons covered in the first lesson of any UI/UX class.
- Turning standard radio buttons into tabs is confusing and pointless.
- The fact that an item can’t be deleted from the Edit screen is just silly.
I’m not sure if I’m missing anything. But I am quite sure that if this redesign isn’t reverted (or so dramatically changed that it functionally replicates the old design anyway), I will be forced to move us to a competitor. Which is very sad, because I’ve been promoting Bitwarden to everyone I know for as long as I’ve been using it, and we even chose it for how easy the UI was compared to, say, 1Password.
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True! I want my 3 buttons back!
It’s been back for a few days now, see here: Usability issues (UX) in redesigned UI (2024.12.0) - #107 by FaviFake
Same here, I turned off auto-update in Firefox on the machines here as it is still on 2024.11.2, and downloaded the same versions for Chrome & Edge and installed on all the machines. TY to @DenBesten who pointed out where to get them from!
This is sadly a pretty typical occurence in “UI/UX refresh” over the last few years … make it very pretty but don’t worry about usability or functionality; maybe add that back in later when people start complaining loudly enough.
I spent a few weeks recently advocating to a friend in the UK about using BitWarden, he’s 97.3% there but maybe his MacOS/browser experience will be more of a wrestle than I suggest. Or maybe he’ll like it as a fresh user, time will tell.
I hope they don’t take this UI inspiration to Desktop/IOS/Android … but I’m old - I started programming on punch cards where one mistake would mean the stack of cards which folloed needed to be repunched. It taught us to be really careful …
How do I fill in card details now? There isn’t even a button now, but before I could just click on it, and it worked…
I really don’t understand why “Fill” became secondary action. I now have to carefully try to target that small button. It is literally the MAIN offering of this extension, why else would I even use it?
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