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by ComputerGuru 1262 days ago
What kind of password manager are you using that freely puts passwords in regular ( or unmasked) text input boxes?

Edit: typo

2 comments

What kind of password manager doesn't?

The whole point of a password manager browser extension is to autofill usernames in username boxes, and autofill passwords into password boxes. Obviously a password is never put in a box where it would be visible, it's always a masked one.

And obviously it only does it if the domain matches.

I probably log into 10-15 sites a day on average. I sure as heck don't want to have to be manually searching my password manager, and copying a username, pasting a username, copying a password, and pasting a password each time. That would be literally minutes a day of totally wasted time for no reason.

You misunderstood me. I said “into an unmasked text input field” which is different from a “password input field”

It’s one where the password isn’t replaced with •••••• as you type it and remains visible.

Both LastPass and Bitwarden have browser extensions that will attempt to fill in login prompts on demand for sites that are detected as being connected to entries.
You misunderstood me. I said “into an unmasked text input field” which is different from a “password input field” It’s one where the password isn’t replaced with •••••• as you type it and remains visible.
Bitwarden makes me explicitly fill it, maybe that's a setting I hit without realizing. It certainly doesn't attempt to automatically submit the form.