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> No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers. I've tried Bitwarden for a few days with their Firefox plug-in. During those few days
by wartijn_ 5y ago
> No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.
I've tried Bitwarden for a few days with their Firefox plug-in. During those few days there were multiple occasions were it would create a password for me, but wouldn't save the login.
I switched to 1password and it is way better in letting you know if it saved a password or not. I also ran in to some other small issues with the Bitwarden ux that made it less than ideal to use.
I want to like Bitwarden, but 1password just seems to be better at managing passwords.
- toyg 5y agoThe main difference seems to be that BitWarden is server software that added mobile, whereas 1Password is mobile software that added a server. So the former is pretty strong on the backend (robust API, can run your own, client-agnostic) whereas the latter works better on the client side, without the "glitching" that sadly is common on BW. I've been a BW user for years (relatively early adopter), and they are improving. At the moment I wouldn't consider anything else, for the simple reason that I could host it myself tomorrow if they went closed-source or shut down. For something like secret management, continuity planning is a must IMHO. I think they have been very good at doing things The Right Way since early days. Also 1Password always looked very Apple-focused and I'm trying to move away from that.
- wartijn_ 5y agoI've heard a that 1Password looks Apple-focused before (Sometimes as a negative, sometimes as a positive), but I mainly use the Firefox plugin (in Linux) and it works great.