I did not wish to change password managers. What's a decent password manager that's free software, and has a usable Firefox extension that works on both desktop & mobile?

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Gergely Nagy 🐁

@hexmasteen I do plan to self-host, as I'm self-hosting (Vaultwarden) now, and have no desire to change that, nor sign up for Yet Another Account. I already have too many.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@tardis I am using Vaultwarden currently, but it - currently - requires a Bitwarden client, which they're enshittifying. So I will have to move away from Vaultwarden, unless a suitable client emerges.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@hexmasteen (With that said, it might be a good option for my parents who don't self host as much as I do, so I'll forwarded the recommendation to them, thanks!)

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I'd normally say "Proton", but sounds like you want to self host.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@ferricoxide I do, yeah. Otherwise Proton would be a strong contender, indeed.

Ryan Clough :scremcat:

@algernon I've had no issues with KeepassXC's extension recently. They've even added passkey support, though that's still a bit flaky because of the diversity in implementations.

I have poked at a bunch of other options, but I've found pretty much all of them to be lacking in some form or another. Adding a file sync program (self-hosted Syncthing for me) and leveraging KeeShare has filled in for basically all of the cloud-based features I used to rely on.

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@algernon Yeah, I have no idea what we'll be doing because we are using the same. Which sucks. Also, I'm sorry but, this name is super funny...

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@tardis Hihihi. I am finding it hilarious too. It's just for halloween, though. I'll change it to something else after (or if I get bored of it sooner).

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@algernon I have nothing to say about browser extensions. But I can recommend having a KeePass file, synched between devices with #syncthing. No hosting, offline first, secure and you own it. If you want to host a full fledged password password vault, I can recommend bitwarden.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@sakurasubnet Bitwarden (well, Vaultwarden + Bitwarden clients) is what I'm trying to move away from, because they're (bitwarden) are getting enshittified.

I guess I'm going back to KeepassXC. Used it before, and it keeps getting recommended. Hopefully the browser extension is less flaky than a few years back.

Ryan Clough :scremcat:

@algernon I should note that getting it to work on Ubuntu used to be a bit painful and required the .deb version of Firefox, but as of 24.10, it works with Snap Firefox with minimal additional work.

I should also note that Android is my preferred mobile platform and was a factor in my decision to use KeepassXC + Syncthing. There may be better options for other mobile platforms.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

@CiscoJunkie I'm on Android, and have Syncthing installed already, so things should be easy there. On desktop, I already have both the app & browser extension installed so that I can take them to a test drive in the near future. No snap shenanigans, just some NixOS magic.