Highly requested by the Bitwarden community, the new inline autofill menu greatly enhances the user experience, enabling users to fill login credentials faster than ever.
The auto-fill icon appears inside relevant form fields and displays a menu of credentials associated with the web service or account. This streamlines the login process, especially when multiple logins are saved for the same site. If a login is not saved for a particular site, simply add new logins to the Bitwarden vault from the menu.
A security-first approach to auto-fill
While presenting speed and ease for end users, the auto-fill feature requires a careful, security-minded approach. Because the auto-fill process involves injecting code and DOM elements into pages not controlled by the extension, this is especially important for user security.
- The auto-fill menu will only fill credentials when a user selects a form field they want to interact with. This protects users from potentially malicious form fields or web pages and ensures sensitive information will never be populated without user knowledge.
- Users have the option to password-protect login information for an additional layer of security when auto-filling.
- Extensive third-party penetration testing was conducted to identify security gaps prior to release
Read more detailed developer information on the strict security measures put in place for inline auto-fill in the
Bitwarden documentation.
bitwarden.com
