The UI could be a bit better.

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Even with the current growing pains it is worth it to use. It has become a necessity to use a PW manager, and I believe it is not realistic for the layman or average user (I count myself here from several perspectives) to self-host/implement/configure encryption or critical security systems where a mistake ends your life.

BW is priced quite fairly and works most of the time. I recognize of course that they (probably) cannot make everyone happy; the subreddit is filled with complaints about the aged interface, and when the rework comes, it is then filled with the complaints of the change-averse. And on and on.

The primary frustration for me is on Android. For whatever reason, mainstream Android itself creates a labyrinth of permissions, 'battery management,' other switches, and lack of root that have lead to a platform in which Bitwarden is not 100% reliable to execute all its functions with the authority required. For me (no root), even unleashing the app and handing it 'accessibility' daemon persistence doesn't make it whole.

There are some sites/situations where Bitwarden will not be called up when you face a login. More and more sites lately do not reveal a text field for password input until a username or email is entered and passed to the server. Login challenges inside of many apps (outside web browser) are often simply not recognized. When this is combined with the fact that devs, including Mozilla, typically make no provisions for users to set and use hotkeys on mobile devices, you may find yourself with an interrupted workflow, flicking and typing through menus to access your needed credentials to copy-paste on the site or app. It feels really bad when encountered, but I don't believe the situation is Bitwarden's fault.

On a computer, I would press alt-z to *force* bitwarden to paste credentials, or alt-a to instantly access the vault sidebar with a list of all logins for the current page, but I have not found a way to do something like this yet on my mobile (even though AnySoft keyboard, for example, allows the use of functions like Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-a)

Here are all the things currently wrong with the firefox plugin as of may 2025.
1. search box is no longer in focus when you open the plugin
2. the clear (x) button is missing from the search box now
3. you can't select text in the url field of an entry with the mouse.
4. the totp copy button is lit up for every entry even if they don't have a code stored.

While I love Bitwarden, the FF Extension Version: 2025.4.0 SDK: 'main (50f5a17)', Server version: 2025.5.1 no longer defaults focus to the search box on clicking the extension. I see the Chrome extension now defaults to the search box. Please make the FF extension also default to the search box.

Passkey support is amazing! The only negative aspect of Bitwarden is the inability to export the full database, including attachments. Current export function is only for a portion of the data.

On Firefox mobile, it doesnt Show Entries of passwords etc.

Terrible.

Never change your password. I did so only because my password was leaked out on the dark web. Since it was similar to the one used with accessing Bitwarden, I changed it.

Bad move.

Now I can no longer sign into the Bitwarden Add-On in Firefox.

However, I can sign into Bitwarden through the online vault, and while remaining signed in, I can then sign into the stand alone Bitwarden application and yet still not sign into the Bitwarden Add-On in Firefox. It refuses to recognize the new password. You can sync the app everywhere and it won't make a difference.

You can delete the add-on, re-add it, restart Firefox, and dance naked beneath a full moon and it will not recognize the new password once it is changed.

Oh, and even trying the original password doesn't work either. Yes, I even tried that.

Also, forget turning off two-step sign in, because no matter how many times you do that, it will turn itself back on again and usually at a time when it is most convenient.

I remember the days when signing into things was a breeze, now you have to bend over backwards and shove your face up your arse to get into even the most ridiculously unimportant sites. Thus having a password manager... that doesn't work with it's own password.

Oh, and forget trying to use it easily with an iPhone. I have the new iPhone 16 and it has been reduced to ridiculousness. It is almost impossible to use it easily without have to circumnavigate Apple's BS making anything but their own password manager easy to use. What used to be a single step process, is now three or more steps. Don't expect to create new passwords on the fly, or for Bitwarden to recognize website that exist within it. You will have to manually got into the app and do it the old fashioned way... click click, type in website and search, click click, copy username, click click, paste into website sign in page, click click back to Bitwarden, click click copy password, click click paste into website password field... and hope.

This is as much Apple's fault as it is Bitwardens, and perhaps more so. Apple doesn't want anyone using anything other than what they can force you to use that they can make more cash on. Which is why I detest them as much as I once loved them when Apple was still Apple before that Microsoft hack, Tim Cooke was taken on as CEO. What in hell was the board of directors of Apple thinking? Profit and ever more profit that was all.

Enough ranting. Now I have to figure out how the hell I'm going to be able to sign into accounts made with Bitwarden when it still worked. Passwords of 135 characters long.

Unfortunately, after installing the Bitwarden extension for Mozilla Firefox, I noticed that some websites stopped working properly or failed to load at all. Disabling or removing the extension resolves the issue, which suggests it’s causing conflicts with certain page scripts. I hope the developers address this bug soon. For now, I had to uninstall it.