If your vault is locked when you attempt this, a new tab will open prompting you to unlock. Without opening your browser extension, you can right-click on the username or password input field and use the Bitwarden → Auto-fill option. Using the context-menuĬurrently unavailable in the Safari browser extension.

In cases where a web page or service has multiple items with relevant URIs, Bitwarden will always auto-fill the last-used login. Selecting the vault item inside the Tab view will auto-fill login information to the detected input fields. If you want, you can hide the badge counter using a the Show badge counter toggle in the  Settings → Options menu. When a vault item has a corresponding URI, the Bitwarden icon will overlay a badge counter reporting the number of items found for that web page (pictured below). If you are unfamiliar with using URIs, we recommend reading this article.

For more information, see Basic Auth Prompts.īitwarden browser extensions have a unique Tab view, which automatically detects the URI (for example, ) of the page in the open browser tab and finds any vault items with corresponding URIs.

If your browser extension is having issues auto-filling usernames and passwords for a particular site, using linked custom fields can force an auto-fill.Īdditionally, basic authentication prompts work a little differently than regular auto-fills.

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