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Unfortunately my company blocks the sync password feature :-(
A reasonable policy given the lack of control. What do they provide you with as an approved password manager?
postits glued to my monitor :-)
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#292Chrome's sync also "just works" for me shrug
Yeah the whole premise here is that Chrome sync is broken. I'm not sure many people share that belief. Love FF though. Maybe I'll go through another testing cycle with it and see if I just end up on Chrome again lol.
>see if I just end up on Chrome again lol.
One must love advertising and tracking to put up with Chrome on mobile.
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#293One of my biggest gripes with Firefox sync is the way they have divided the mobile bookmarks from the pc ones. It makes the ux kinda weird as a lot of the bookmarks I use on my desktop I also use on my phone and vice verca. But when I add a bookmark on my phone it ends in a separate mobile bookmark folder.
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A reasonable policy given the lack of control. What do they provide you with as an approved password manager?
postits glued to my monitor :-)
Better than most. Just don't do it in a newsroom [0] or when you have TV cameras in your nuclear facility [1]
[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32248779
[1] https://www.lancs.live/news/viewers-spot-sellafield-blunder-...
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The notepad application or a pad of sticky notes with which to decorate your monitor with the halo of arcane sigils known to ward off security breaches?
Both. I like to keep a file in notepad updated with all my corporate passwords, which I then print and post on the wall by my monitor. I also use a label maker to fix the login credentials for shared computers on the backside of their keyboards. I suspect people like me are the reason my firm is trying so hard to migrate to single sign in instead of dozens of unique passwords which require updates
> I also use a label maker to fix the login credentials for shared computers on the backside of their keyboards.
That's not terrible, depends on the level of physical security you have
> which I then print and post on the wall by my monitor.
That's pretty bad any any passing person or camera can see them
> Both. I like to keep a file in notepad updated with all my corporate passwords
That's the worst of your 3 methods though, but for many attacks is more secure in practice than using chrome/google sharing, especially if the file isn't called "password.txt" or similar.
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#296One thing I find annoying about all the sync implementations I’ve run across is the inability to exclude certain extensions. I want most of them to sync, but not all.
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I wish they'd only permit manually vetted FOSS extensions, separating developers (who might secretly sell out) from the ability to push updates directly to users. I want something like F-Droid or Debian but for browser extensions. In fact it's really disappointing that Mozilla goes out of their way to make it difficult for another organization to do this for Firefox. If you want to install extensions from a source ot…
> I wish they'd only permit manually vetted FOSS extensions, separating developers (who might secretly sell out) from the ability to push updates directly to users. The developer does have to supply access to the code and updates do have to be vetted before being pushed to users for an extension to be included in the recommended extensions program. This is a big advantage over Chromium based browsers, since we know t…
My point is that they shouldn't be publishing any extensions except those vetted extensions, or they should make it easier for another organization to publish extensions.
Both Google and Mozilla publish unvetted extensions and consequently their extension "stores" are on the whole very sleazy.
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I’ll have to look into containers and tree style tabs. I have never knowingly used those.
Tree style tabs enables vertical tabs, which are listed at the side of the window rather than the top. It means you can still read tab titles when you have more than a dozen tabs open. Plus you can nest and rearrange your tabs to fit your work or study. For some, like me, it's a game changer and I dislike using chrome now because it doesn't support vertical tabs. Caveat: to disable top-of-window tabs you have to use…
> Tree style tabs enables vertical tabs
It's not just vertical tabs (which MS Edge has an option for), it's tree-structured vertical tabs. If you open a link in a new tab, the new tab will become a child of the original tab, making it easy to identify related groups of tabs. The subtrees can be expanded/collapsed. There are a lot of configurable options (e.g., to automatically collapse a subtree when you open a new one).
More info on the extension's page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
As someone pointed out in a sibling comment, Sidebery gives you a similar UI. I haven't used it as much, but it seems to work OK too.
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The notepad application or a pad of sticky notes with which to decorate your monitor with the halo of arcane sigils known to ward off security breaches?
Both. I like to keep a file in notepad updated with all my corporate passwords, which I then print and post on the wall by my monitor. I also use a label maker to fix the login credentials for shared computers on the backside of their keyboards. I suspect people like me are the reason my firm is trying so hard to migrate to single sign in instead of dozens of unique passwords which require updates
It sounds to me like you're a hero.
I absolutely loathe needing to know more than one password per sector of my life - ideally I'd prefer a password manager as they're more flexible.. but SSO is alright too.
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#300One of my biggest gripes with Firefox sync is the way they have divided the mobile bookmarks from the pc ones. It makes the ux kinda weird as a lot of the bookmarks I use on my desktop I also use on my phone and vice verca. But when I add a bookmark on my phone it ends in a separate mobile bookmark folder.
It's somewhat nice that the bookmarks added from mobile is marked in some way as such. Makes organizing them on a computer later easy and/or can make it easier to recall (I remember seeing this page on my phone -> I'll look for it in the mobile bookmarks folder). But depends on how you use bookmarks of course.