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I've been using LastPass for years. Looks like I'm going to have to export everything from my LP vault and import it into Bitwarden. Any downsides to Bitwarden that anyone knows of? I'm asking more about convenience, i.e. how well the browser extensions and Android app work and less about security.

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I use LastPass at work and Bitwarden (technically Vaultwarden but same clients) at home.

I find that Bitwarden's UI is much less quirky, for lack of a better term. LastPass finds ways to consistently annoy me.

The commonly clicked secrets move to the top, I can see more than two items in the list, it doesn't forget me periodically, and when prompted for credentials I can't cancel it and get in anyway.

You can add multiple sites to the secret, not in some hidden menu in Bitwarden. That's handy for things like AD/LDAP credentials.

If you want to improve your security, don't export from LastPass. Instead, authenticate into each service with the creds in LastPass, change your password in the service, then save the new password into Bitwarden.

In general, one should avoid exporting/importing credentials. Instead reset them and save the new creds into the new place.

I'll do that, thanks!

Switched from LastPass to Bitwarden some time ago. The only issue I had thus far was exporting the contents out of LastPass. Some of the special characters in some passwords did not export properly. I had to add those items by hand.

As for Bitwarden, I like the UI (iPad, Mac, iPhone) but routinely forget how to generate a new password - the function is buried inside one of the menu options. Other than that, I really like it. And, there is option to host your own vault.

Thanks very much. I wanted to hear from others who've made the same switch, so this is really helpful. LP has been pretty seamless for across devices so I wanted to know what to expect with BW.

Quick tip: if you have Bitwarden's browser extension installed, you can use Cmd + Shift + 9 (I'm assuming it's Ctrl + Shift + 9 for Windows) to load your clipboard with a randomly generated password: h4!E49vFcGEE%c#$HZ%z*3^5B

Awesome, thanks for the tip!

Thanks! Would you mind generating a few more for me, though?

Merry Christmas!

&^Q@w7rC#F!%V%swarZ4@pss#

4nKR7ReAG^ghezg%yD6CF79b!

aH8MPi5NoKv4Hzdfec7Q*c4XT

hwD!LktbF5&Wxy^wh^Uq7%&%^

CYQ9%5^vXAiz&4fPp%fWfa%rq

I moved to bitwarden and was happy at first, but after a while the app UIs were really annoying. They save/update password functions kept messing up and I would lose the password.

I eventually decided that the UI was too clunky to move my whole family onto and opted for 1password. Very happy with that choice.

> Any downsides to Bitwarden that anyone knows of?

UI\UX is bad. I tried switching to it from 1P, but went back after four months because I'd rather pay more than suffer daily.

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