This one’s a quickie, repeating something I posted on social media a short time ago. Bitwarden has changed its browser extension in a way which affects how you might measure a web page’s size. Since that’s something that web devs typically do to make sure their sites load as well as possible, I thought this information was worth passing along.
The text shown below is from a toot on Mastodon1; and I put appropriately revised versions thereof on Bluesky and Threads, as well.
The @bitwarden browser extension now injects
page-script.js(437 Kb) into each page. It’s apparently due to Bitwarden’s recently added support for passkeys.If you use this extension and are trying to measure your pages’ download size, be sure to filter out this script by name in the Inspector view of your preferred browser or just use Inspector within a private/“incognito” tab/window.
#WebDev #WebDevTips #HTML #JS #JavaScript #Bitwarden #Browser
2023-11-10-0559CST
No longer viewable there as of 2025-04-26. ↩︎
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