[programbreeding]

>Previously used Lastpass for 8 years.

As a longtime Lastpass user, this is the comment that made me go check it out. Are there any big pros or cons you have run in to compared to Lastpass (aside from the ones you listed)? I'm asking about actual functionality, not about the it being open source and such.

[neogodless]

I used LastPass for roughly a year before making the switch. I also switched from Chrome to Firefox at the same time, on Windows and Android. Desktop - no issues!

Android is evolving, and their changes seem to have put Firefox in a slightly behind position, which I think they're almost caught up on. Basically, there's legacy and modern autofill capabilities in Android, and Firefox is working on closing the gap. In the production release, I am unable to use the BitWarden android app, but there's an add-on that mostly does the job.

I have two issues with the add-on. First, it tends to disappear from the menu. There have been some bugs on BugZilla for this, including one I recently submitted. Of course, quite fortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue since I submitted the bug and installed Nightly. And it's interesting - Nightly seems to work with the app, so the need for the add-on should go away. Second, the add-on is a little clunky. It opens a temporary tab, and then closes that tab when you select your login. However, there's an issue there, too, where sometimes it just does not work. It throws up an error message that it's unable to autofill, and there's little you can do about it except close the temporary tab and the original tab, and start again.

The Android app also has an issue that I've seen with Chrome, where it isn't actually detecting the site you're browsing, but just the app you're using (Chrome) and thus is unable to select your login. This is easy to get around - usually going back to Chrome and then tapping the BitWarden toast will find you your login.

Overall little nuisances that are mostly Android related issues more than anything, and each of them seems to be getting worked out, so I expect the user experience to only get better.

[greythree]

In Firefox, you can also open Bitwarden in a sidebar (which doesn't disappear thankfully).

[neogodless]

Firefox for Android?

That's where my issues are. How do you open the sidebar?

[toyg]

Can you ? How? I don't see any option.

[driverdan]

I've been a paying LastPass user for over 8 years. I switched to Bitwarden a few months ago. It's so much nicer to use than LP.

LP's extensions and mobile app have gotten slow and clunky. Bitwarden's software is fast. Unlocking LP in Firefox would take me 10+ sec. Bitwarden takes about a second.

The only downside I've found so far is that Bitwarden doesn't have an inactivity logout, only timeout. This makes me log in more frequently than I'd prefer.

[balladeer]

Here's my end user take on it. I have moved from LastPass after almost 10 years and going to stick to it for two main reasons:

1. It's cleaner and doesn't feel bloated

2. It's open source.

However I wish:

3. They would have some consistency between mobile (iOS) and extension (Safari) UI (because imho extension actually looks like a mobile UI, I find iOS UI less useable)

4. They would do away with load time that I often notice when I open extension even though data is stored locally.

5. It doesn't maintain state or save info when I leave the extension popped up and then move away and come back to it. Also, It also doesn't save auto generated passwords with the "url" it was generated on which often renders password history useless.

6. For everything I have to reach all the way to the browser bar extension button and I don't get any option in the text field itself which was pretty good in LastPass.

I wanted to move to KeePass and while it has an excellent app for desktop (native MacPass is fantastic!), but I could hardly find anything even close to useable for Safari or iOS.

[programbreeding]

Thanks for the info.

I tested out Bitwarden after I posted this question yesterday. Regarding #6, that did bother me as well. I wanted to let you know there's a fix for that (at least in Chrome there is, I don't know about Safari).

Settings > Options > Enable Auto-fill On Page Load - that will automatically fill out the login forms like LastPass does by default. But I do wish they had the option to disable this on a per-secret password like LP does.

Also right clicking on the page will give you a Bitwarden context menu which provides an auto-fill option (Right Click > Bitwarden > Auto-fill > Pick the secret). This is actually more steps than clicking the extension button at the top (Click extension button > click secret), but at least you don't have to move all the way to the top of the page.

Again, this is in Chrome.

[nyolfen]

i also used lastpass for 7 or 8 years, premium even. the chugging speed was turning me off, so i gave BW a whirl. i switched a few months ago now and have zero regrets or issues. it's basically interchangeable as far as features i use, except it's faster. even better, it's open source, the ios app is free, and now it's audited. i'm very happy with it.