How to prevent Firefox on Android from refreshing when switching to Bitwarden for the password? - eviltoast

I’ve just switched from Brave to Firefox on Android and so far liking it. There’s one issue though. I use Bitwarden for my credentials & SwiftKey as keyboard. When I go to a website that asks for credentials, the Bitwarden button shows up above my keyboard to unlock my vault, as expected. I click it, unlock with fingerprint, and select the credentials. So far it’s as expected and the same as Brave. However, when I select a credential, it goes back to Firefox, but then refreshes the page; so the credentials are gone. Luckily the credentials then show up above my keyboard as I’ve unlocked the vault, but after some time of inactivity I have to unlock again and the problem reoccurs.

Any idea how to resolve this?

/edit: looks like a long outstanding bug in Firefox, see here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807364

  • daftwerder@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    you could try the Firefox extension version of bitwarden, but it might be annoying to set up. I’m not sure if they approved it in the extension store yet. if not you may have to switch to Firefox nightly or fennec fdroid and then create a custom extension collection. you can look up detailed guides on this.