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If you are looking for an alternative take a look at Psono. It's open source, only sold B2B so it's free for individuals. It's made in Germany, so a European alternative to the US solutions. It has all the typical features with browser extensions and apps for android and iOS.

I hope not to offend anyone, but if you want a real open source password manager take a look at Psono.

I am Sascha, the main developer behind it and we have no VC money nor any plan to do a stunt like this.

Firefox is a product that hasn't found any way of monitization. Without money they cannot implement the features that chrome offers and web developers use on their web products. As such users will have zillion of little bugs, be annoyed which make them move to chrome and the circle will continue.

Let it die. Let Google be sued and forced to break Chrome away. Let every engine be based on the same engine. Less bugs. Easier for developers. Less user problems.

Have you ever tried Psono? (I am the main developer behind it). Its open source, client side encryption, offers free versions for individuals, regular audited and and bootstrapped / no VC money. Would be happy to hear your opinion how it compares to 1password.

I have build Psono, an open source password manager. The company was founded about 2.5 years ago (during the high times of COVID) and it was generating $4k on average directly from start. One should mention that I developed the product for a couple of years before I started the company and already had customers alined before I founded the company. I was running it then for 1.5 years as a side project and then beginning of this year decided to quit my cozy WFH, well paid, not stressfull day job to work full time on it (with recession and mass layoffs in the news).

If one is looking for an alternative, may I propose Psono? (I am the main developer behind Psono) It doesn't suffer from some of the reported issues and as such uses for example scrypt instead of pbkdf2 for the hashing of the masterpassword and the urls are for example also encrypted. Noteworthy its open source so everyone can take a look at the source code or ask questions in our discord channel. https://discord.gg/RuSvEjj

Maybe you could do OP a favor and redo the calculation, assuming that an attacker knows that he used passphrases. Assuming that an english dictionary has maybe 10.000 meaningful words... And then even worse if you assume that the attacker even knows that he was using Bitwarden for that and an attacker can easily lookup the dictionary that Bitwarden is using. So with maybe 1000 words and 5 words used ...

I am working on my password manager's android app. Implementing Android's autofill capability. Alot of fighting with flutter, android, kotlin, ... The password manager is Psono (https://psono.com) if someone wants to know. I built it myself because a couple of years ago when I started good alternatives did not exist.