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> Interesting, I've always felt that browser-based password managers provided remarkably little value for most people.

They provide the value of "you should, by design, have no idea what most of your passwords are; if you know any significant number of your passwords you probably have bad passwords".

And both Firefox and Chrome sync passwords between devices.



This is the value of any password manager, not a browser-based one.


The comment I was replying to said "browser-based password managers provided remarkably little value"; it didn't say "little value relative to other password managers".

Much as with cell phone cameras, "the best camera is the one you have with you"; the best password manager is the one you have with you.




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