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by onyva 2296 days ago
I wish they’d fix Lockwise on iOS. Not really working. In my case takes ages to open when set as default, and never auto suggests login for the active site, either from Firefox or any other app.
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Yes, it's a shame, it feels like none of the developers is actually using it. It also took them several months to fix a blatantly obvious UI issue with iOS 13. I would love to like Lockwise, it fits the bill perfectly for me, but its current state on iOS is just painfully bad.
Why use lock wise over say. 1password or LastPass ?
Because I trust Mozilla with my data. Would love it to support alternative backends, like NextCloud, though.
I would suggest bitwarden, it's fully open source. I switched to it from Mozilla, mostly because of the sharing.
I use Bitwarden, but don't really like the UX. It being a one person endeavor seems to make the rate of improvement quite slow.

The app itself is quite slow to open on the platforms I've used it on. Searching for items is also slow. It doesn't allow for custom types (like WiFi, software licenses and other things), like the commercial ones do.

Trust a small portion of a web browser company instead of an entire company dedicated to the security application?
Absolutely zero trust in for-profits, especially ones who only care about an exit or getting bought by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. It'll be too late to get your data out of their hands at that stage. Regardless, so far we've seen that no software/company is 100% reliable, no matter what their expertise...
Mozilla Corporation is technically a for-profit company.
It was probably deprioritized after the recent layoffs and reorg. They need to focus on their core product which is Firefox.
Lockwise takes ages to open on desktop Firefox.
Agreed! It's painfully slow.