Copy suggested password
When setting a new password for an account, Proton Pass suggests a new password, and usually it is a complex one. This is great, but I must be able to copy it in order to actually use this password. That is, at least when this password has not yet been actually used and stored in the Proton Pass secure vault.
Some account creation procedures enable users to "unmask" a password. In these cases usually an eye icon appears at the right side of the new password field. Clicking this icon unmasks the password and users can copy the password that Proton Pass suggested.
But many times this is not possible and users are left with only a series of dots that are masking the password. These situations render Proton Pass's password suggestions useless, because there is no way to copy the password to actually use it.
So please enable us to copy the suggested password at the time that the suggestion is made.
sambaltrassie
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TS
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A work around is to not use the function when it auto-detects a password field. But to use the function directly in proton pass. It then does actually copy the password to clipboard.
This however is still very cumbersome.
It has been less of an issues since proton pass has become better at detecting password fields.
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Josiah Redding commented
Guys, how is this not already added to Pass?! I keep auto generating passwords and then the plugin doesn't save it so I have to reset the password and start over and generate with Bitwarden or another app that actually copies it for you so you don't immediately lose it.
So many sites are not following the traditional sign up process so it's important to save it to the clipboard in case the plugin doesn't recognize the account creation.
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Shrouded433
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Another reason I want this that for some websites Proton doesn't offer to store the new credentials which causes that I don't know the password anymore and have to use the password reminder.
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Umearai
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If I could vote for this twice, I would! Please update this feature and save us users a whole lot of extra work resetting newly generated passwords every time.
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Reg B commented
Yes please. I had to repeat something 3x tonight
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Valdinei
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This is very important. I only can use this feature when the website has the eye button.
It's so weird that this feature was launched without anyone think about how the user could save the suggested password. -
rashlee
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This was an issue for me in signing up for the protonmail uservoice feature itself.
I used the complex password, but was unable to copy it. Protonpass then failed to ask if I wanted to save the new login using the password it generated, forcing me to perform a password reset and create a vault entry manually.
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VMsystems
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When a new password is set, there are websites that redirect to a new page to set the new password, so the Proton Pass addin does not understand that it belongs to an existing account and sets the suggested password, which unfortunately cannot be copied. As soon as this happens, you can start again from the beginning with changing the password.