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Does anyone know about SafeInCloud?
No I’ve never heard of it, but have just searched it and am having a read.
I just use firefox to remember my passwords
is there an advantage to switching to some third party app like bitwarden?
I feel like firefox is good enough and very easy to view/manage my passwords, but open to arguments why others are worth switching to
How does it store them though? I thought (this was maybe long ago) they they were stored plaintext on your machine instead of in an encrypted vault like password managers.
I’ll be honest, I have no idea how secure the firefox passwords are stored… maybe I should actually research this some more
but I would hope Mozilla has a reasonably secure method in place
There's no point switching if you are using either of these two, so I'd just keep 1Password.
I guess one is considerably cheaper than the other, so there’s that.
But yeah, other than that, no real reason to switch if there is parity on the functionality.
I’ve been using Bitwarden for years now, and I really enjoy the seamless experience across platforms. I use Windows at work, Mac/Linux/Windows at home, I also have an iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, and a Chromebook. Bitwarden works great everywhere. I originally chose it because it’s open source so I could host it myself if I wanted to.
I actually pay for Premium ($10/year) because I wanted to use FIDO hardware keys, but you also get 1GB for encrypted file attachments, which is handy.
BitWarden does everything I want, so I have a hard time considering paying far more for 1Password which does the same thing.