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by 4878241143 834 days ago
I like Bitwarden but I just find the UI so clunky.

The option to add save or update a password after a successful login just seems to flash so quickly, it's hard to catch it - Fedora/Fx. The icons in the browser extension - why is a key icon for 'copy'? Why is 'edit' all the way at the top in the same colour/font as body text?

It seems to be the best of the bunch when it comes to password managers but I do find the UI a pain.

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Coming from 1password its often painful.

Start editing an entry, click outside the bitwarden extension window to go copy something you want to save and bam, windows is gone with your data. I don’t remember how 1password was dealing with that, but I never had issues like that with it.

View/Edit page look the same. How many times I have been clicking on the fields trying to edit them to realize I’m in view mode.

Create a custom fields hidden type, want to generate a password? Well, you can’t. You need to close what you are doing (don’t just click outside the window) save, go generate the password. Copy, search, view, don’t forget to edit, paste your password.

There is so many things like that. I hate bitwarden.

I came from 1password and bitwarden was leagues better than it. I still don't like the browser addon but anything beat 1password
> why is a key icon for 'copy'?

Because that copies the password. The icons next to it copy either the username or the TOTP if configured.

I agree. Injecting UI into the DOM is just a clunky, shitty method.

Is there a better way for extensions to create pop ups for the save/update interface? I pretty much do all the saving and updating manually in the extension dialog.

I think this is relative. It is certainly not perfect, but I like the UI better than anything LastPass has come up with.