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3rd party password managers have a bunch of useful features, which is why I use one. Here are the first few that come to mind: - portability, if I use chrome o

3rd party password managers have a bunch of useful features, which is why I use one. Here are the first few that come to mind: - portability, if I use chrome on my desktop, firefox at work, and safari on mobile I'm out of luck. - built-in password managers only work for websites - I store many non-website security credentials in my password manager - extra details - I often add the security questions for a site into my password manager - compromised password warnings (maybe some of the built in password systems do this now?)

H8crilA 5y ago
2, 3, 4 are handled by Chrome, for example. These really are trivial features that any decent corpo can get right. 1 obviously isn't.
- kennywinker 5y ago
  Oh, yes, I forgot a pretty important one, I don't want to upload all my passwords to google. Offline storage, and direct device-to-device syncing.
- lazide 5y ago
  Last I checked I couldn’t export Chrome passwords (aka offline backup), couldn’t add non site passwords, and couldn’t manage non site based passwords/secrets with chrome password manager. And that was a month ago?
  - riffraff 5y ago
    You can import chrome passwords from other browsers so I think you can also export them for backup. I agree that I don't think you can add custom secrets.
    - lazide 5y ago
      Sure enough, looks like I was wrong re: export. Thanks! Unfortunately other things are still an issue - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606
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squiggleblaz 5y ago
> - built-in password managers only work for websites - I store many non-website security credentials in my password manager The one integrated with Firefox supports integration with an Android stored password entry tool. As a manager it's of very poor quality - better to do all your actual management from desktop Firefox - but as a tool to enter a stored password into an app, or to save the password you just entered, it works quite nicely. > - compromised password warnings (maybe some of the built in password systems do this now?) Firefox does have that service

H8crilA 5y ago

2, 3, 4 are handled by Chrome, for example. These really are trivial features that any decent corpo can get right. 1 obviously isn't.

kennywinker 5y ago
Oh, yes, I forgot a pretty important one, I don't want to upload all my passwords to google. Offline storage, and direct device-to-device syncing.
lazide 5y ago
Last I checked I couldn’t export Chrome passwords (aka offline backup), couldn’t add non site passwords, and couldn’t manage non site based passwords/secrets with chrome password manager. And that was a month ago?
- riffraff 5y ago
  You can import chrome passwords from other browsers so I think you can also export them for backup. I agree that I don't think you can add custom secrets.
  - lazide 5y ago
    Sure enough, looks like I was wrong re: export. Thanks! Unfortunately other things are still an issue - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606

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squiggleblaz 5y ago

> - built-in password managers only work for websites - I store many non-website security credentials in my password manager The one integrated with Firefox supports integration with an Android stored password entry tool. As a manager it's of very poor quality - better to do all your actual management from desktop Firefox - but as a tool to enter a stored password into an app, or to save the password you just entered, it works quite nicely. > - compromised password warnings (maybe some of the built in password systems do this now?) Firefox does have that service