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Switched from LastPass to BitWarden over the weekend. I have 1,200+ passwords, and the transition was seamless. I even set up BitWarden on one of my web servers so that I can control my data -- even that took less than 30 minutes, thanks to BitWardenRS docker container.

The only thing I have yet to figure out for BitWarden is how to get a little icon to show up next to user/password fields in forms. I just have to right click and go to BitWarden (FireFox) to get there, which it just slightly more work. Still worth it.

Why would I pay $36/year (LastPass) for something that I can control for free?

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With BitWaden FF, you can use Ctrl+Shift+L to auto fill your most recently used account for the current website.

Hope it helps.

If you have Bitwarden in Firefox's toolbar the icon will also display a number indicating the number of available credentials, and clicking the icon to open it and then clicking any of the entries autofills.

Given you use Firefox, have you considered using the built in Sync service and companion Lockwise mobile app:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

I seriously considered Bitwarden not so long ago when I was looking for a password manager, and then realized I also need to maintain bookmarks across platforms and devices. Sadly Bitwarden doesn't offer that as a feature.

I'm curious if there is a differentiating feature of Bitwarden over Sync

I'm not the parent comment, but I did consider Lockwise but the inability to store anything else than passwords is a dealbreaker. I have some software license keys and their receipts stored securely, as well as some network accounts that are not web-based.

LastPass is $36/year now!? It used to be $12/year (prior to their acquisition by LogMeIn, which is when I bailed).

Is there an exporter available for BitWarden then? I'm guessing your 1,200 password had a seamless transition because of some tooling the project provides? Is that correct? Cheers.

Not the person you're asking but you can export your passwords to CSV from LastPass and BitWarden can import the CSV. The only issue is that the LastPass export can be a bit sketchy and have a few errors you need to manually fix.

I suppose seamless may have been an oversell. I consider it seamless because BitWarden provides the import functionality for a variety of competitors' exports (XMLs, CSVs, etc), so all I had to do was export my LastPass passwords to my desktop and then import it into BitWarden via the web interface. HTH

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