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bitWarden password manager, first impressions
Okay, I've just tested @bitwarden for the first time. The solution seems quite good, but the desktop app really disappointed me. Yes, it is fully accessible, but it's again this web-based experience where navigation is a bit more cumbersome than with native apps. And to develop a third-party app, I believe you have to upgrade to a paid plan to get access to those APIs.
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Mariia Sydoruk
Mariia Sydoruk
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bitWarden password manager, first impressions
But what's inconvenient about it?
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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bitWarden password manager, first impressions
@Caoimhe I've been using KeePass for many years. It has a super simple slick native interface: a category tree view, a list view of passwords and that's basically it. the only plus/minus it has it's keeping your data in a local file, so on the one hand you have total control, but on the other hand synchronization and password sharing becomes quite painful. So I was trying to find something else. But this webbish interface is just… you have to make lots of movements here and there.
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Florian
Florian
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Huh. With NVDa at least I usually find web-based to be more flexible than native, but then I practically live on the web these days and only grab native apps if I have no other option, like ...no youtube downloaders or other such silliness for me :)
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André Polykanine
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@zersiax I actually hate that you have to turn virtual cursor off, then back on, then use quick nav keys, then read some text in between, then tab, then arrow, and everything is mixed like hell. I have no that slick and robust feel as I do with native. Don't take it wrong, I love web, but for websites, not for desktop apps. There are some exceptions like Slack, but I personally use scripts that make it look as native as possible.
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Peter Vágner
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@Andre Polykanine @Florian I like @Bitwarden verry much. I am using browser addons as most often I need to fill passwords on the websites. When I need to check something or change the password I am just using webinterface. The #Android app is also verry accessible with a #screenreader.
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Florian
Florian
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I generally don't use the bitwarden interface much anyway. It stays out of your way and you really just need it when you wnt to manually add stuff or look something up, everything else works either through the context menu actions or through the autofill system which I recommend setting a hotkey for. Oh, also, the prompt about saving passwords appears at the bottom of the page so be mindful of that
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James Scholes
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@zersiax I don't much care if an app is native or web-based. The issue is that a proper native UI implies certain things, e.g. the ability to use type-ahead in lists, menus and tree views, whereas web more often than not implies that those features won't be implemented even if the widgets themselves are technically accessible. A tree view with 400 items that doesn't have type-ahead isn't very usable, even if it is technically marked up in all of the right ways with other standard keyboard behaviour. Granted, sometimes it's just a case of adapting to something different, e.g. using a search feature more than type-ahead. @menelion
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André Polykanine
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@jscholes @zersiax Also that. and here I don't see any tree view at all, and I'm used to it because I've been using KeePass for years now.
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