Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App (theverge.com) 26
Mozilla announced last week via a support article that its Firefox Lockwise password manager app will reach end-of-life on December 13th. The final release versions are 1.8.1 (iOS) and 4.0.3 (Android) and will no longer be available to download or reinstall after that date. The Verge reports: What started in 2018 as a small experimental mobile app called Lockbox ended up bringing a way to access saved passwords and perform autofills on iOS, Android, and desktop devices to a small but enthusiastic following of Firefox fans. The app was also later adapted as a Firefox extension. It seemed like it was apt to stick around for the long run.
The support article recommends that users continue accessing passwords using the native Firefox browsers on desktop and mobile. In an added note on the support site, Mozilla suggests that later in December, the Firefox iOS app will gain the ability to manage Firefox passwords systemwide. The note alludes to Mozilla adopting the features of Lockwise and eventually integrating them into the Firefox browser apps natively on all platforms.
The support article recommends that users continue accessing passwords using the native Firefox browsers on desktop and mobile. In an added note on the support site, Mozilla suggests that later in December, the Firefox iOS app will gain the ability to manage Firefox passwords systemwide. The note alludes to Mozilla adopting the features of Lockwise and eventually integrating them into the Firefox browser apps natively on all platforms.
System wide (Score:3)
"Mozilla suggests that later in December, the Firefox iOS app will gain the ability to manage Firefox passwords systemwide"
Much rather have a separate thing, untethered to a browser, for this kind of thing. One that doesn't have internet permissions among other things.
KeePass (Score:3)
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Mozilla's modus operandi for last decade has been reinventing the wheel everywhere where it costs them as little as possible. So they can focus on their real work, persecuting people who are "on the wrong side of history".
Disappointing - lockwise is great (Score:5, Informative)
I adopted this almost as soon as it came out and have loved it!
It's everything I wanted in a password manager without a gouging SAAS behind it. I'd gladly kick in a few bucks to support it, The prices the SAAS password companies want are stupid.
Works on all my computers and synchronizes, works on my phone, tablet.. they really did a nice job with it.
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The one thing I didn't like about it was its inability to generate a random password. Otherwise, it was all I needed.
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Yeah.. that is annoying. But, that was the only thing.
Re: Disappointing - lockwise is great (Score:2)
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Re:Disappointing - lockwise is great (Score:4, Informative)
The prices the SAAS password companies want are stupid.
Did you check bitwarden?
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I did now, thanks for the pointer!
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If I understand this correctly they basically took Firefox's built in password manager and added the ability to store passwords for anything, not just websites.
That does sound kinda useful. There is Keepass, which is free and available on all platforms and which has cloud sync options. It's not as well integrated into the browser though, and you need to supply your own cloud (all the big free ones work).
What assholes (Score:2)
They've taken a page out of Google's playbook of ruining anything useful they develop, except they don't have the deep pockets of Google to afford to do that. I'm now very much less willing to stick with Mozilla for absolutely anything. They've sold the farm.
lockwise sucked anyway (Score:1)
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Re: Firefox can still save and share passwords (Score:2)
You can copy and paste between the FF password manager and other apps. At least on Android you can.
Re: Firefox can still save and share passwords (Score:2)
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Firefox on Androdi can already be set as autofill app for the system having the same functionality as Lockwise. On iOS based on the summary it should be available next month. Granted that it requires you to install Firefox but I doubt that there is too many people that uses Lockwise and not Firefox so this is irrelevant for most.
Other than that the only difference is that now there are more steps to get to the password list as you have to go through Firefox settings instead of just opening Lockwise, if you
it figures (Score:2)
I've been using it on Android and found it quite useful, frankly it's the most useful thing they've done in years. So naturally they're killing it.
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a) troll
b) As a former Netscaper, I've stuck with FF as much as possible out of loyalty. Yes Chrome is the dominant browser and I use it in some circumstances but my primary browser is still Firefox.
Just use Bitwarden (Score:2)
Mozilla without Lockwise is just Mozilla.
Bitwarden without Bitwarden is ... you get the point - incentives matter.
Moral of the story (Score:2)
Moral of the story: don't depend on others any more than you absolutely have to, because one day they will screw you.
I dropped FF after the manual password import bug (Score:3)
I dropped FF after the manual login/password import bug since I refuse to share my passwords via Sync.
Mozilla wallow in cash but don't focus on their browser. Netscape deserved to die and was reborn as Phoenix. Now Firefox deserves to die and be forked by devs who make the browser and nothing but the browser their priority.
That's why I discourage noobs from using Firefox. Geeks are THE reason FF was once popular but we don't matter any more so Mozilla does not matter to me. Serve clients or lose them. If ya want to monetize my browser use, stop sucking.
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