Chromium browsers can install an iCloud Keychain web extensions with macOS Sonoma now

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    1 year ago

    This is good, but a bit late for me. I already moved to Bitwarden for passwords and 2FA. I also don’t expect this to work on my Linux PC.

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      1 year ago

      How is bitwarden for Android? I tried Roboform, and I could almost never get it to autofill passwords on Android. Eventually I just gave up on it completely.

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        1 year ago

        Autofill on Android is just generally terrible. Password fields are basically never recognised.

      • Liam Galt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Works really well in my experience. Every once in awhile something won’t be recognized but no more than on desktop.

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      1 year ago

      I just exported my iCloud password into a csv file on a MacBook, then imported that file into Firefox.

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      1 year ago

      The Keychain integration is done through a Chrome/Edge browser extension developed by Apple. Hopefully they will also port it to Firefox.

      Apple has made an iCloud Bookmarks extension for Firefox which is still supported, so hopefully a Keychain extension will follow.

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    Good to know, Apple’s security and privacy settings are good… giving the fact that they DON’T share any information that they harvest from you, which is a completely different thing than NOT harvesting at all. They like their customers data so much that they embedded encryption tools in their dedicated hardware design.

    Regarding the Apple Password Manager, it is a good tool but ultimately I prefer to self host a solution agnostic to a company in which I hold no ability to speak or vote on their future. I recommend Bitwarden and a VPN (Wireguard) to access your vault.

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    1 year ago

    need this and apple pay integration for firefox pls.

    also whatever happened to that news about firefox and other browsers gearing up for non-safari based versions of ios apps? or did i misremember

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      iCloud Keychain integration in Sonoma is provided by an Apple developed browser extension, it’s up to Apple to develop one for Firefox.

      Mozilla said they were working on a Firefox port to iOS, but I don’t suppose anything will be properly released until Apple opens iOS to third party software sources.

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    1 year ago

    This has been the main thing keeping me from switching to keychain full time from Bitwarden. That and password syncing with a spouse

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    1 year ago

    Good for normal people, I use Bitwarden though and don’t intend on switching. This is a win for the masses however.

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    Good to hear for people that are tightly interwoven with Apple’s ecosystem and have been using it, more options is always good. I’ve personally been using 1Password on my Apple devices (which integrates nicely on iOS with Face ID and very well on my 2019 MBP with Touch ID).

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    1 year ago

    Will this work on only Mac, or can I install the extension on my work laptop Edge browser too? That would be essential for me to be able to use it cross platform.

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        Dang, that kills my use case since I can only install software on my PC from my org’s internal App Store. Too bad Apple still requires this and it can’t be just the Edge extension.

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      Apples own is Mac only (well, I’m 99% sure at least), if you want to go cross platform I’d recommend Bitwarden or, like some others here has mentioned, 1Password.