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#3A chrome extension would be great!
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#7A bit off topic, but while looking at this I noticed another expirement - Firefox Side View. It looks like it lets you have two open tabs side-by-side in one browser window. This is exactly why I used the Tile Tabs[0] extension and had to switch to Tile Tabs WE[1] with the Quantum update. I'm happy to see this coming back without the WE workarounds.
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
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#8If so, then this doesn't really promote much confidence in a product that appears to be a password manager. If they've addressed this issue, then that should probably be explicitly stated, although I understand the difficulties of that from a marketing perspective.
Maybe the reference to 256-bit encryption is a nod to this, with the expectation that those unfamiliar with the problems wouldn't be familiar with the differences between plain-text and encrypted storage?
Regardless, I think it's pretty promising that a browser is addressing this problem head-on, rather than leaving it to third-party companies to solve in a cross-platform way.
[0]: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/03/20/nine-years-on-fi... (If you don't use a master password, which isn't required, I believe?)
[1]: https://www.wired.com/2016/08/browser-password-manager-proba...
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#10So can someone expand on this a little? What are the differences between this and something like LastPass (other than this isn't an add-on). Does it provide app autofill? Does it prevent the same plain text decoding that browser password managers typically have? Is this useful? I'm legit asking because I don't know and would appreciate a security person chiming in.