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Comment by tcfhgj | Hacker News Reader

I use Bitwarden, but the lack of auto type on Desktop as well as the limited selection of symbols of the password generator annoys me a lot

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What symbols do you want? Kanji and Russian Cyrillic also?

The limited subset is that they're easily typeable on a normal English keyboard without having to resort to on-screen keyboards or alt sequences.

from KeePass at least:

- Upper-case

- Lower-case

- Digits

- Minus

- Underline

- Special

- Brackets

In the Bitwarden password generator you can use uppercase, lowercase letters, digits and !@#$%^&*. Is the lack of brackets or a minus really an issue for you?

Does seem weird to ignore []{}-_,()'`"

there are more special characters, e.g. the following three: =/:

Re: lack of autofill (at least for the browser extension), Ctrl-Shfit-L will fill in forms with the top candidate. Not quite autofill, but I find it faster than clicking.

I think not having auto-fill enabled by default is a conscious decision as there was a big fuss how auto-fill can be abused because the input can be captured without submitting. https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...

There is the option to enable auto-fill on page load though https://bitwarden.com/help/article/auto-fill-browser/

I am speaking for the desktop application which can't auto fill/ auto type in different applications such as Element

This would be really helpful, it's always annoying having to deal with logging into different game clients when they randomly seem to log out

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