Original release notes
Overview
- Performance improvements to reduce the extension's impact on web page loading and responsiveness
What's Changed
Community Highlight
- [PM-35399] Performance issue due to observer cascade and shadow DOMs in modern apps/websites by @golddragon007 in https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/20286 (included in #20622 )
Bug fixes
- [PM-35399] golddragon007 performance fix by @audreyality in #20622
- [PM-35399] autofill chrome performance tuning (#20622) by @audreyality in #20642
Maintenance
- Bump browser client version to 2026.5.0 by @differsthecat in #20633
- Change browser version to 2026.4.1 by @differsthecat in #20652
New Contributors
- @golddragon007 made their first contribution in https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/20286
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/compare/browser-v2026.4.0...browser-v2026.4.1
