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I am very unhappy that 1P is moving to Electron for macOS for the reasons people here have reiterated a million times. I am actively looking for alternatives now.

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As much as I'm "meh" on Electron, I rarely use the actual 1Password App. On the other hand, I use the Firefox extension 30+ times a day, and that's about as far from a native app as you can get. So I think I'm fairly unlikely to notice a huge issue, and will instead be pleased that consolidating on Electron gives them greater feature velocity.

On the other side, I use the 1Password app extensively and make heavy use of all the different categories (secure notes, Windows MSDN licenses, etc). I’m extremely disappointed to see this turn into yet another sub-native browser-in-a-window experience.

Fair enough! Hopefully the app is as performant as they can possible get from Electron.

You'd get rid of a working solution because of an implementation decision? I _love_ 1P, and I use it on Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS, and it makes perfect sense that they standardize on Electron.

> You'd get rid of a working solution because of an implementation decision?

Yes, because the implementation decision has implications for both performance and UX. I’ve used 1Password since version 3 (2013!) and gotten friends and family to do the same, but I think I’m done when 7 stops working.

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