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Wow, blown away by how much better the new password manager is! If they add support for custom fields on each login, this could almost completely replace my need for a 3rd party solution.

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Couple other features I'd like: - Import from other formats (Keepass, or at least any format Keepass can export to) - Share items with someone else

I'm blown away that there's no import yet. How else am I going to switch from another password manager?

I also saw a comment from the dev team that they're "aware" of the need for such a feature but it's not on a road map yet.

Agreed. I'm thinking of cancelling my Dashlane subscription and moving to this Password Manager now.

Firefox's Lockwise App (on android) leaves a lot demanding though.

Wow, a subscription password manager.

Then what happens when you're on a different browser?

With a previous update 1-2 years ago, the password manager seemed to lose the ability to force-create and edit new items, which is necessary if you are using it as a general purpose password manager, or for sites that stubbornly refused to play nice. I switched to LastPass, which worked out fairly well, with the family option, so that my spouse and I can share subsets of passwords with each other. But this FF update does look like they've fixed that issue.

personally im trying to move away from keeping everything in one basket but maybe there is some benefit to having a password manager built in vs a 3rd party extension? less attack area?

earlier in this year I switched from bitwarden (which I would still recommend) to keepass because I wanted to fill desktop passwords... but there is the added benefit that you actually don't need a browser extension if you don't want to. instead ive been using the autotype feature that can be run from a hotkey.

So when some Firefox tab gets owned by some Javascript exploit, does that mean its integrated password manager could be compromised too?

Don't you still use a 3rd party solution for app logins on your phone?

Can't speak for Android, but for iOS Firefox has an app which does all the proper hooking into system autofill to be able to fill your passwords browsers/apps.

(There's an Android app, too. I'm just not familiar with Android's affordances for that sort of thing so I can't really comment on how it works.)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/

Does it only support passwords? I actually use 1Password for quite a bit of information. (Credit cards, bank accounts, email accounts, servers, and random memberships)

I will always use a 3rd party password solution since it prevents browser lock-in.

That's one of my reasons too, I use Safari on iPhone and iPad, and FireFox on my desktop. It's great to just be able to use 1Password everywhere.

This is wonderful. I wish they would make Pocket a little less terrible (no forced reader mode for links, etc)

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