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i used bitwarden for about a year and i like how simpler it was compared to lastpass and i recommend that to most people now. the reason i switched to keepass
by mackrevinack 5y ago
i used bitwarden for about a year and i like how simpler it was compared to lastpass and i recommend that to most people now.
the reason i switched to keepass was i wanted to use autofill desktop passwords as well.
ive mainly been using keepassxc for a few years which is not too ugly i don't think, but have been trying out keeweb recently which is a lot more minimal.
a neat feature with keepass is autotype. i have mine set to alt+x so its easy to activate and using the "add url to window title" extension means there's no connection between your vault and the browser.
https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title
another idea i had recently was to create a second vault for passwords that aren't that important. so now they majority of my passwords are in that and the vault master password is shorter so its quicker to type, while anything important goes in my main vault which has a stronger password. its great not having to type a really long password just to unlock my vault so i can log into some random forum! and it also means im less paranoid about leaving the vault unlocked.
(when the autotype list pops up you will see sites from both vaults, as long as they are unlocked)
so yea, there's a few things that keepass does that other don't, but the downside like you said is having to manage the file yourself. i already had synching set up on all of my devices anyway so it was trival to sync the file using that