[jeroenhd]

The lamentations about Bitwarden's heavy clients really ring true. On my phone, simply opening the password manager to unlock the vault can be enough to make the application I was trying to log into go OOM. Integration with my keyboard of choice (SwiftKey) is also questionable and then Firefox adds another layer of weird behaviour that makes autofills too difficult for me to recommend it to my family.

When I first read about the command line Bitwarden client I just laughed at its absurdity. I'm tempted to write my own Bitwarden compatibility library and maybe a command line or GUI that doesn't require an outdated copy of Chrome to run, but doing security software right takes time and research I don't want to commit right now.

I also remember going from my self hosted Bitwarden instance to Vaultwarden and seeing he memory requirement drop several gigabytes. I like Bitwarden's browser integrations for the most part but the nice GUI comes at a big performance cost.

Perhaps my 900 secrets are too much for a password manager to handle but I don't think whatever computation the program does on the encrypted secrets warrants this much overhead.