Apple got it from a developer they didn’t make it. It’s all explained on GitHub. He asked for 1 dollar and Apple didn’t even respond to that. Greedy Apple
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Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox
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I've migrated away from icloud keychain six months ago because of compatibility issues. That means one less thing binding me to the ecosystem. It's not "cool", but their best interest to work with other browsers and systems.
I agree. Just added it to FF and tried to login to MR. It won't fill in either username or password. Tried another website with the same results. Zero star extension.
Passwords on macOS and iOS are stored in a secure database called Keychain. This has existed for 25 years. Alongside that has been an app called "Keychain Access" that could be used to access the Keychain (one more, actually), update, edit and delete entries. This includes passwords, SSL certifications, and secure notes.
But Keychain Access has been mostly a "geek" feature, not really exposed to regular users in a friendly way. That's where this new Passwords app comes in. It essentially replaces Keychain Access for most password management. Keychain Access still exists and can still be used directly.
I store many Secure Notes into Keychain and they sync gracefully across devices.
Fair enough, and to be honest I can understand why.
I use Bit warden myself, I thought like you, but witgh soi many devices these days, it uis useful to have a password manager.
I use Bitwarden because it can be used on all operating systems including Linux.
I will stay with Bitwarden, I used it on Windows and it worked well with Windows, did not see any need to change when I moved over to Mac. Also, Bitwarden works with all operating systems I use, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.
Well, this is interesting.
I moved from Safari to Firefox on my laptop years ago. As keychain wasn't supported I started using Bitwarden.
There are two things that Bitwarden could do that keychain couldn't, that I cared about. 1) I could get it to designate any field on a website as being a password field, which means it will fill in my home router password. 2) it can fill more than just user and password. I have one banking site that requires three bits of info and then still asks for 2FA.
I'm going to see if the new Passwords split-off from keychain can handle this.
EDIT: Well, that didn't take long. First, having to authenticate each time was irritating, but it refused to fill in my router password, so I'll stick with Bitwarden.
I moved from Safari to Firefox on my laptop years ago. As keychain wasn't supported I started using Bitwarden.
There are two things that Bitwarden could do that keychain couldn't, that I cared about. 1) I could get it to designate any field on a website as being a password field, which means it will fill in my home router password. 2) it can fill more than just user and password. I have one banking site that requires three bits of info and then still asks for 2FA.
I'm going to see if the new Passwords split-off from keychain can handle this.
EDIT: Well, that didn't take long. First, having to authenticate each time was irritating, but it refused to fill in my router password, so I'll stick with Bitwarden.
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To be fair, I only transferred the listing (page on addons.mozilla.org) to Apple, they made the extension themselves without reusing my code AFAIK (more likely copy-pasting their Chrome extension).
Nice! Still don't know why the Apple extension prompts you to enter the code on the same device you're using. Bruh, I'm already on the device just ask for my fingerprint once and sync with it forever.
Too late. Bitwarden is better and supports many more platforms and browsers
I'm glad to see this, on general principle. The old third-party tie-in has been sorely missed ever since Firefox overhauled its plugin / extension stuff.
But I made the move to Bitwarden several years ago, and am not likely to move back. Bitwarden is head and shoulders better than Apple's in-house tools.
But I made the move to Bitwarden several years ago, and am not likely to move back. Bitwarden is head and shoulders better than Apple's in-house tools.
It’s easy enough to use a third party password manager if you want to use browsers other than Safari. I’ve been using Bitwarden which has extensions for Safari, Firefox and Chrome based browsers as well as Windows
They took over ownership, which is the most interesting part of this to me.
Apparently they just picked the most popular / best existing extension and made it official. Which I feel is an unexpectedly cool move.
Usually this goes the other way, with shady entitites purchasing legitimate extensions and turning them into malware. To see it go the right way is refreshing.
You really, really can't. This is perhaps the one thing you absolutely must not do when it comes to passwords.
Password managers really aren't optional anymore. It's good to see Apple making a strong push to get its users onto this baseline. I've been using an advanced password manager for over a decade, but everyone needs to use at least a basic one if for only this one reason you just named.
I like the word janky. Lol.
I just wish Apple supported images in Keychain, like the older 1P did (not entirely sure if their web version does, still have my single purchase version).
Now if they can fix the sync bookmarks because I remember on chrome installing the extension for iCloud literally erased my favorites bar and bookmarks because chrome was empty ; I thought it would at the time sync my safari to chrome so I can use my MacBook and windows pc internet in sync but no chrome extension sucks. I hope Firefox does it better