![]() But it's not that big of a con, because major services generally offer extensions in both Chrome and Firefox. The biggest disadvantage is out of the box, extensions written for Chromium won't work. If you haven't used Firefox in awhile, I did notice significant performance improvements when Firefox Quantum was released. Unlike Chrome, Brave, and Edge, which are all Chromium based and share the similar look and feels, Firefox paves it own path. It has a completely different (open sourced) codebase. Mozilla Firefox is the browser I have the second most experience using in the past. LogMeIn is founded in Boston, Massachusetts and looks to be still independently run and operated. According to Wikipedia, it was aquired by LogMeIn in Oct 2015. I trust the security protocols of LastPass, but I also questioned who owns LastPass. And LastPass makes it easy by allowing authentication to LassPass via fingerprint. But some may say its more secure to occasionally prompt for passwords. If it matches a login dialog with a saved username/password, then it prompts to populate the user credentials. Using LastPass to start was a bit of a learning curve, as the passwords aren't auto-populated on a smartphone quite as automatically as Chrome. Once logged in, LassPass lives as a notification which when clicked, will check the current webpage or app for a login dialog. ![]() LastPass is also available as an app on Android. There isn't an easy way to transfer passwords from Google Chrome to LastPass, so I've been manually moving them as needed, and updating to more secure passwords as necessary. So once I move it begin the transfer to LastPass, it will be available to all browsers. LassPass is available as a 3rd party extension on most major browsers, including the set of browsers in my test. For the longest time, there does seem to be a free tier that mimics a majority of the features of Google Chrome's password manager. When I first started using Chrome many many years ago, LastPass did not offer a free account. Experimenting with LastPassĪs I begin experimenting with alternative browsers such as Firefox, Brave, and Edge, I also embraced LastPass as a 3rd party password manager. But on older machines (especially ones with traditional hard drives), loading too many tabs comes with noticeable performance degradation. Since my laptop has been using solid state drives (SSD) for 5 years, I don't notice major performance issues. The downside of Chrome is that it uses a lot of memory. Instead, the username and password is saved twice, which is less than ideal for first load and password changes. The only downfall is the password manager is not advanced enough to recognize that the password I use on is the same password I use for the Quora app. As a huge plus, a select handful of Android apps also save passwords in the same system. I use the Chrome browser password manager, which integrates nicely in both Windows and Android. My setup for a long time, I've been fairly happy. ![]()
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