Web Vault v2.0 Public Preview/Beta Test

[kspearrin]

The web vault has been completely re-written from the ground up. As such, we are releasing a public preview for users to test and provide feedback.

You can access the web vault v2.0 preview at https://vault.bitwarden.com/preview/

You can log in with and use your existing Bitwarden account.

Noteworthy Changes

• Written in Angular 6 with TypeScript
• Significant performance improvements
• New custom layout/design to reduce clutter & noise, and to better match our other apps
• Bulk sharing option for sharing multiple items to an organization at once
• All importers re-written and updated to better support secure notes and credit cards
• Organization import functions now support all importers
• Locking with auto-lock after 15 minutes of inactivity
• Support for localization (new languages coming soon, see here if you want to help translate)
• Added configurable password generator under Tools
• Security enhancements

Feedback

Please leave comments here regarding any feedback, questions, missing features, or bug reports. Do not open new issues. We hope to release this version officially next week.

Additional Note

This re-write is a great step forward for Bitwarden development since it shares a significant amount of code with other Bitwarden applications (browser extension, desktop, CLI, etc). This will allow us to iterate faster with improving and adding new features going forward.

[mathiaskivi]

Is this normal that so many icons are missing in this preview? https://i.imgur.com/8J5Vyyn.png
(There are more, I just made a screenshot of a few of them)

[kspearrin]

@playfriik If you refresh do they come up? Icons are fetched from a new endpoint in v2.0, so they probably are not cached yet and are still being fetched by the icons server

[heubergen]

Have the same issue here; refreshing doens't help here.
For example:

First picture comes from the Firefox extensions
Checking out the html code it seems the icon is not even loaded

[mathiaskivi]

Refreshing didn't help, even opening the Chrome in incognito mode doesn't show the icons.

[kspearrin]

@playfriik @heubergen What do browser tools show in network tab? Is it try to fetch the icons or what?

[mathiaskivi]

@kspearrin This is what my browsers network tab shows: https://i.imgur.com/QDecCCB.png

[heubergen]

same here (firefox nightly 63.x)

url is https://icons.bitwarden.net/www.xing.com/icon.png

[kspearrin]

Looks like it's cached on disk as a 404. Try clearing browser cache and refreshing. The icon seems to work when I request it now.

https://icons.bitwarden.net/000webhost.com/icon.png

[Mioni]

All icons show normally here.
Vivaldi.

[heubergen]

000webhost works here but xing not (in private mode and with different browser checked)

[kspearrin]

https://icons.bitwarden.net/xing.com/icon.png

[mathiaskivi]

Shouldn't incognito mode ignore disk cache?
This URL: https://icons.bitwarden.net/000webhost.com/icon.png
Shows up like this: https://i.imgur.com/3ptvhRD.png

[kspearrin]

I guess not. It is definitely pulling from local browser cache.

[heubergen]

https://icons.bitwarden.net/xing.com/icon.png

that works
but

https://icons.bitwarden.net/www.xing.com/icon.png

not

[mathiaskivi]

That's what I get after clearing browser cache (first time): https://i.imgur.com/tJaQheb.png
After the first time I start getting the disk cache 404 error: https://i.imgur.com/QDecCCB.png

[da2x]

Firefox is giving me a spinning mouse cursor as the page tries to download hundreds of favicons at the same time. For me it’s 1.2 megabyte of favicons. People on slower connections and more expensive data plans than me don’t appreciate loading resources they might not need. E.g. this would be painful to load over satellite.

How about only loading favicons progressively. It’ not like you loose a whole lot of functionality if an icons is delayed and loads a bit slower. Maybe only load for three times the number of sites that are visible on screen? (So currently visible sites plus two screens of scrolling worth of favicons.)

[Mart124]

Nice job @kspearrin, thank you 👍
Just one thing, for a better user experience with long vaults, what about making the page 100% in height, so that the left, top and right menus stay visible while we scroll through the vault items ?
It may be "unpleasant" to scroll back to top to move to another folder or collection.
The scrollbar would then be for the vault items frame/div only, not for the whole page.
Thank you !
Edit : sounds like it has already been discussed on dev channel.

[kspearrin]

@Mart124 Yes, this was discussed in the channel and would have issues when the sidebars themselves are greater than 100% height of the window.

[mprasil]

I've found a minor, cosmetic, issue. When you try to "share/move/delete selected" with no ciphers selected, it still tries to do the action instead of telling the user that no cipher has been selected or the options being greyed out.

It ends up calling the relevant API with empty cipher list, so no harm done, but I guess the user should be told somehow that nothing has been selected as it might lead to users thinking they made some operation when they didn't due to miss-click or something like that.

[kspearrin]

@mprasil Fixed with error message. Thanks.

[seffyroff]

is there a docker tag for this beta so us self-hosters can try it out?

[kspearrin]

Beta test is over. Web vault is now live here: https://vault.bitwarden.com/

We will release this update to docker for self-hosted users in the coming days.

[trparky]

I do have one comment though, it would be a performance improvement kind of thing. Right now the vault search function is a real-time sort of search, I suggest that the search function only activates after the user presses the Enter key.

[heubergen]

I have to disagree from my experience; I'm currently using an eight year old notebook and I don't have any performance issue with the new vault.

[trparky]

It depends upon how many saved items you have, of which I have a lot. The new vault is a whole lot better than the old vault in terms of searching it, it's definitely a whole lot faster however putting the option to require pressing the Enter key could help those of us who have 500+ items in our vaults.

[Crocmagnon]

@trparky, it could be provided as an option : activated by default and switch off if you have performance issue ? Either way, maybe it would be better to track this in a feature request at https://community.bitwarden.com 🙂