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I use Firefox / Safari built-in password management. I do not know how secure they are but no issues in 10+ years and I certainly have access to all passwords in my keychain/account. Not locked behind some corporate service. They are saved locally.

Both easily generate long random passwords, etc.

For me this is a solved problem (until Firefox's service is hacked, of course) to the point that my real pain point is remembering the random strings I use for "security question" answers. For that I use a KeepPass database. But I wish FF/Safari would see the need and add security questions fields to their management.

No way am I giving real information for those. Why yes my mother's maiden name is cd559b1085b94b2dad32bb9e458e2422 so sorry to hear it was leaked, SONY.

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I use a password manager(Bitwarden) to:

1. avoid vendor lockin (if I want to switch browsers I can, or switch from iOS to Android) 2. enable portability, with passwords not just being available locally requiring manual migration to other devices

Do you have problems/qualms with the above just using browser password managers?


Isn't this difficult to manage passwords in apps other than a browser though? Plus, I use 1Password to store other sensitive data like SSN etc.


not really, on desktop I can just go to firefox menu | passwords and search/view/copy any of my saved passwords

on android, firefox can autofill passwords in any app




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