Bitwarden not working on Brave

aquila-enu

Hi, it's great to see finally Bitwarden autofill worked with Vanadium. However, now I can't use the autofill on Brave anymore. The bitwarden vault wont show up at the top of my keyboard.

Previously, it worked for Brave but not Vanadium. Ever since it's fixed for Vanadium, I've had issues with Brave. Does anyone else have the same problem?

Edit: bitwarden works on brave on my stock android

matchboxbananasynergy

Hey there. Can you let us know what your autofill settings look like for Bitwarden? (A screenshot would be ideal - here are steps on how to attach one in the forum: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/72-discussion-forum-markdown-syntax-and-image-support-via-our-media-proxy)

What I think is likely happening here is that you were using Bitwarden's accessibility setting for Autofill, and stopped using it when Vanadium got Autofill support, which made it stop working on Brave.

EDIT: My theory seems very likely after finding this - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/25955

My guess is that you were using the accessibility option for Bitwarden, which Vanadium no longer needs because it has proper Autofill support, and when you disabled that option, you lost the ability to do Autofill in Brave.

Marking as solved as this is likely the cause. If it isn't, let us know.

aquila-enu

matchboxbananasynergy you're right in saying that I used to turn the accessibility setting on and then turned it off now that vanadium supports autofill. Is there a solution to this? I'd rather not use accessibility and give BW permissions more than necessary.

My BW autofill settings are now only with autofill service and use inline autofill. The accessibility and drawover are off.

Edit: my stock android BW also doesnt have accessibility on to make BW works on Brave. So I'm guessing what you explained only applied to Graphene when it was on then turned off.

freedom_warrior

aquila-enu graphene restricts bitwarden from accessibility access. So I Dont know what your talking about

matchboxbananasynergy

Do you use Sandboxed Google Play in the profile that Brave is in?

aquila-enu

matchboxbananasynergy yes I do

aquila-enu

Update: I tried reinstalling BW and then Brave hoping that it "forgets" the accessibility was ever turned on, but it still doesn't work.

aquila-enu

Bumping this in case someone has a solution

[deleted]

It still doesn't work ! 🙄
Play services installed
Bitwarden does not have overlay nor accessibility, only the two first permissions.
Nevers used overlay and accessibility.

NightSky

For what it's worth, Proton has said autofill is an issue specifically with Graphene devices using Brave. I wish Proton, Brave, Bitwarden, Graphene could work together to fix it, assuming they're not.

helden

Same for 1Password...

bschnei

Can confirm this issue (auto-fill does not work in Brave browser but does in Vanadium). This also appears to be a commonly reported issue both here and on Brave's forums:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1435-bitwarden-not-working-in-vanadium-brave
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/6803-brave-password-autofill-from-bitwarden-stopped-working
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/6539-bitwarden-and-brave
https://community.brave.com/t/autofill-not-working-reliably-with-bitwarden-or-keepass2android/70464/18

I reached out to Bitwarden for support and after troubleshooting and confirming that auto-fill from Bitwarden appears to work fine in Vanadium, it was their opinion that the issue is with GrapheneOS. @matchboxbananasynergy is it appropriate to open an issue here for this? Thanks!

Relaks

bschnei
Could this issue be related? https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/2737

bschnei

Relaks Thank you! Sorry I missed that. I agree a lot of the evidence points towards Brave. I only started here on the advice of Bitwarden's support. I'll see if this issue can get any attention from Brave's community.

goskm75f

Proton pass does not work on brave too

freedom_warrior

I'm not sure its a graphene issue. Bitwarden autofill works on pretty much every browser ive tested on graphene, except brave. That would mean its a brave issue. I Dont believe brave on graphene supports inline autofill

Relaks

I think this quote by a GrapheneOS developer might clarify the situation somewhat:

They could add native autofill support. They appear to only have Google autofill API support, which means you need sandboxed Google Play. It's possible that feature broke with sandboxed Google Play at some point but we aren't aware of it and Brave not having working autofill isn't enough to assume it's the problem.

freedom_warrior

Relaks I have sandboxed play services installed, and it still doesnt work. I am fairly certain this problem lies on braves end