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Does anyone know if the browser integration is similar to/better than Lastpass or Bitwarden? Does it even have browser integration?

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I use the browser extension all the time (Chrome).

When it works, it works great. You can tell the extension to auto-fill and auto-submit, so that it feels like you had been logged in from the very beginning.

The problem is, it works (in my experience) around 80% of the time. I'm guessing it's not on them since it requieres websites to follow certain standards in order to have autodetectable login form fields, but it's a pain nonetheless.

Try it, it takes a couple mins to set up. The best feature IMO is the keyboard shortcuts to fill in details.

Many non-standard fields may cause problems with the extension. You can always try to set Custom Login fields for a certain page which allows you to override input fields for username and password use.

Also, this is more niche, but I have it set to auto-fill HTTP Basic Auth credentials, which works perfectly since that's a well-established standard.

I use Basic Auth for many of my LAN-only web services at home and KeepassXC + browser extension feels like having client-side certificate authentication or similar, feels like going through airport security without taking your stuff off into bins.

> The problem is, it works (in my experience) around 80% of the time

Well, that's better than my experience with Lastpass, although that might just be me.

I've been using it ever since ditching OSX in favor of Debian Linux. On OSX, I used 1password and the KeePassXC browser extension works just as fine. In fact, better, because 1Password stopped working for Chromium due to whatever proprietary cert requirement which wasn't met.

In my experience, it's a lot worse which is why I switched. It constantly broke when Firefox updated. Usually the fix was to update keepassx but sometimes it was more complicated than that. Eventually it got to a point where I couldn't fix it. So I switched to bitwarden with a self hosted server and have had zero problems. It's also been a better, more reliable experience in other ways.

It does have a browser integration. Available for Firefox, Chrome/Chromium/Vivaldi/Brave/Edge and Tor Browser.

Pretty good I would say, not much worse than LastPass

Have you tried looking at their website?

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_GettingStarted.html#_se...

Just use this and forget about LastPass/Bitwarden. It has everything you need:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/passwords

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