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by abarringer 1940 days ago
It's bee a couple years but the web browser plugins for BitWarden were unreliable. Our power users made it work but our average office user complained non-stop and moved back to using notepad. Maybe BitWarden has improved since then but it was too immature to rollout to the average office user.
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I started using BitWarden during their rough phase and can agree it was a struggle. On the computer it is now flawless except for the very occasional web site that codes far enough out of standards that any normal heuristic cannot detect that there is a prompt for credentials being shown. On mobile, it is still a bit hit or miss. I'm on Android 10 (awaiting the OnePlus release of Oxygen OS 11 for my model) and the Firefox Add-on is really good, but there are still places where detection of logins isn't quite right. And in apps on Android, it's also hit or miss. Venmo, for example, required me to do a long press, hit the ellipsis and choose autofill. That's fine for a power user and generally a bit beyond what an average office user would find acceptable. Though I don't have comparison to alternatives - it may just be that these apps aren't "behaving" well with the Android autofill service, and you can't blame BitWarden for that.

Recently, my spouse started using BitWarden on her computer, and she did almost all of the set up and migrating her passwords, and updating weak passwords (we paid the $10/year for the reports) without any help from me. She is above average knowledgeable with software, but having her ask me almost no questions made me think that the software for computer use is ready.

I've been using Bitwarden for a few years and have never had to tweak it. It's not as good as LP was at detecting new logins and the mobile app sometimes doesn't detect password fields but overall it has worked fine. In the cases when it doesn't detect it's not hard to copy / paste.