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I have been using Bitwarden because its free for about 1.5 years. The UX experience is so bad on both mobile and extensions. If the extensions closes, like when you copy the password and paste it into the box, it looses its location, so you have to re-find the account, click on it, and then copy the username. You get what you pay for.

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> If the extensions closes, like when you copy the password and paste it into the box, it looses its location, so you have to re-find the account

That's not my experience. The account details stay open for me.

For me the UX is not amazing, but ok. A bit better than LastPass, a bit worse than 1password.

This happens to me on Firefox.

https://recordit.co/QdK2FrRoYX I copy the password, go to paste it in and it loses the selected account:

https://recordit.co/jrvUFWCPkS Here, I go to add an account. I generate a new password and then I try to paste it into the text box to verify it meets the website's password rules. I then go back to hit save, confirming that it worked and it loses the entry.

Sooo frustrating.

You can just right click on the text box and use the context menu to make this task much easier.

oo that is a cool trick! but it doesn't work if you're looking for an account that doesn't match the current URL (like if you created the account on the mobile app)

In that case it's simpler to find the right password entry, click edit on it and add the current domain to the list of domains it keeps for the entry. That way you won't need to mess with the copy/paste button.

I use Bitwarden myself and I only need the copy/paste button for stuff like email and WiFi passwords. If you're manually copying and pasting data, you're probably overlooking one of the many (sometimes not clearly indicated) features Bitwarden has.

Hope this helps!

Don't forget about the Alt-Shift-U keyboard shortcut to open Bitwarden in a Firefox sidebar. Using that, the extension doesn't close when you click elsewhere in the page.

I don't understand. Don't you have the site URL stored with the password to allow bitwarden to automatically find the password entry for you?

At least you get a Linux client

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