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These tools really need a browser plugin for them to be useful to me.

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Has anyone tried using these?

- https://github.com/gustaebel/passext (Chrome)

- https://github.com/jvenant/passff (firefox)

From the chrome extension github:

  "This is pre-alpha quality software, the result of a three
  day project. It will crash your browser, leak your
  passwords and destroy your home. This is actually my first
  Chrome extension and I am no expert javascript programmer."

YMMV

I use passff a lot of times everyday. I can't complaint :)

For Safari (and Chrome) I made a little automator service that gets the url from the browser, strips the hostname, then feeds that into a shell script that calls pass and puts the password in the clipboard for 45 seconds.

It actually works better (for me) than 1password which was always a little flaky at recognizing a website after any kind of site update.

There's one for Firefox.

passwordstore just (with my distro) starting shipping a dmenu (http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) script that I think is great, and personally removes the need for a browser extension. Unfortunately only available on linux.