If you still have issues with the latest version of the Edge extension, an alternative is to uninstall and replace it with the plugin from the Chrome web store. It is worth noting that Bitwarden's Chrome extension has not been updated to 2023.7.0, it is still on 2023.5.1, and as such does not appear to have the issues. The new version is already available via the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store, if you were affected by the issue, you can update to the latest build to resolve the memory leak and performance issues. It appears to have started with a recent update for the add-on, Bitwarden 2023.7.0 for Edge.īitwarden updates its Microsoft Edge extension to fix performance issuesīitwarden has updated its Edge extension from 2023.7.0 to 2023.7.1 to address the memory leak. The password manager's service status page even acknowledged the slow performance problem. Shortly after the reports began to pile up, a Bitwarden employee confirmed that the company was investigating the issue. The complaints began pouring in, which all but confirmed that this was a widespread issue. Another user had claimed that they could not log in to their Bitwarden accounts, which resulted in an "unable to fetch" error. The majority of these bug reports were from users who had the stable version of Microsoft Edge. A common issue that these users had faced was that autofill was not working properly, even when they had triggered it with the hotkey Some users on GitHub had mentioned that the Bitwarden extension for Edge was laggy, it took several seconds to respond, and in some cases the UI did not load correctly (image courtesy: GitHub). The extension had also prompted users to enter the 2FA code.
Many people also pointed out that the extension kept asking for the password, even when it had been set to not ask for the password until the browser was restarted. The issue came to light yesterday, when users said that the add-on's CPU and memory usage began to spike to the point it made the add-on/browser unusable. ADVERTISEMENT Bitwarden for Edge extension is using too much CPU and memory
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