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Google is an advertising company. In the coming years, they'll continue to erode the privacy of Chrome users. I've long since reached the breaking point and switched to firefox. You may not be there yet, but when the time comes, you should make it as easy to switch for yourself as possible.

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Alright google hater. I have edited my question to also include Firefox's password manager.

EDIT: Also, if you don't know, Chrome also supports passwords export/import, so it not any more vendor-lock-in than any other password managers.

The browser built-in options are too limited. I want to do these things:

- Use multiple browsers

- Sync even if <browser vendor> screws you over and terminates your account

- Store things other than passwords. Credit card numbers, PGP keys, SSH keypairs, etc

- Backup the database to my own storage

Export/import is not enough. If I use Chrome, then import to FF, then add a password in FF; now Chrome is missing some data. You need to be able to sync, not just import.

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