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1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

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Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

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The Standalone version’s support is abysmal. Just yesterday I found out it is not supported on Linux. I’m sorry, but what ? I almost regret purchasing 1Password. edit: So complaining about lack of support for a major operating system is downvote-worthy now. Cool. Keep it classy, HN.

It never has been supported on Linux. Why is that suddenly a surprise to you?

I built a Linux machine to perform my development work on and found it out.

"It has never been supported on Linux", uh, okay? I'm saying it's totally shitty that a major platform is not supported.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#33

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Same here. I bought 1Password (multiple times) and have it on my MBP, iPhone, and iPad and got the girlfriend using it on all of her devices too. Matter of fact, I switched to 1Password the very same day that LogMeIn bought out LastPass. I am not happy about them switching to a subscription model and pushing their hosted product and (in this case) making it a requirement. Yes, the standalone version is still around.…

Supposedly, 1Password 7 for Windows will bring back standalone vaults to Windows. Since the hosted solution brings them the bulk of their revenue (I'm guessing), it made sense to me for them to focus on the Windows upgrade with hosted accounts and I forgave them for it as long as 1Password 4 continued to work. I really hope that same attitude continues on with later versions of 1Password X. Starting out with accounts…

You’re not a beggar, though. You paid for the product! Honestly as long as they don’t break the current version, I’m fine with what I bought. I have 1Password now on MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows — and I guess I can get it on my Linux box now if I want to pay a subscription.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Standalone version’s support is abysmal. Just yesterday I found out it is not supported on Linux. I’m sorry, but what ? I almost regret purchasing 1Password. edit: So complaining about lack of support for a major operating system is downvote-worthy now. Cool. Keep it classy, HN.

A lot of commercial software is not supported on Linux. The vast majority of it, even. At one point I ran the legacy Windows version under Wine, which even worked with the Chrome extension. Had to disable some extension security policy in Chrome though.

Yeah, I saw that was an option, but installing Wine and all its dependencies (~750 MB of space) just to run a legacy Windows app is a non-starter, for obvious reasons.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#35

Ugh. Agilebits left out until the very end that this is only for their hosted solution. No surprise but looks like standalone users are left out in the cold. Again. Much as I like and use 1Password every day, I really really do not like the fact that they moved to a hosted model.

Standalone user here since 1Password 2.0, using it both on iOS and OSX. I feel that it receives pretty frequent updates, and doesn't suffer from feature bloat. It even synchronizes great with Dropbox. What are people's gripes with AgileBits' support of the standalone version?

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It never has been supported on Linux. Why is that suddenly a surprise to you?

I built a Linux machine to perform my development work on and found it out. "It has never been supported on Linux", uh, okay? I'm saying it's totally shitty that a major platform is not supported.

Linux is a major platform? It’s probably as hard to write a Linux version as it is to write the other two, but it has at least two orders of magnitude fewer users.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I bought 1Password (multiple times) and have it on my MBP, iPhone, and iPad and got the girlfriend using it on all of her devices too. Matter of fact, I switched to 1Password the very same day that LogMeIn bought out LastPass. I am not happy about them switching to a subscription model and pushing their hosted product and (in this case) making it a requirement. Yes, the standalone version is still around.…

Supposedly, 1Password 7 for Windows will bring back standalone vaults to Windows. Since the hosted solution brings them the bulk of their revenue (I'm guessing), it made sense to me for them to focus on the Windows upgrade with hosted accounts and I forgave them for it as long as 1Password 4 continued to work. I really hope that same attitude continues on with later versions of 1Password X. Starting out with accounts…

> I'm a patient person and beggars can't be choosers.

Is it begging when you pay $50 per license for the product?

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#38
Am I the only one in here who loves their hosted solutions? We use Teams at work and I use Family for my wife and I.

It's important to me that I have access to certain passwords on my desktop, laptop and phone. These items also need to be accessible to others who should be able to view/edit. There's no way to do with without some sort of cloud solution and so the decision becomes which cloud solution. I used to use Dropbox, but now have no need with Team/Family.

With teams, when a staff member leaves, we can easily remove them from the admin panel, update all passwords in all vaults they had access to and have those changes immediately available to everyone.

A lot of responses here sound incredibly paranoid and almost naive. If you're not syncing passwords between devices/users and you're not putting your information into the cloud then I would argue at some point you may be performing insecure actions to accommodate secrets use/management.

For example, how are you logging in on your phone to a service that requires a user name and password when the password lives only in a standalone system on your desktop? If you're not manually entering the password, you're likely doing something security-wise that isn't ideal.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

#39
post #35

Ugh. Agilebits left out until the very end that this is only for their hosted solution. No surprise but looks like standalone users are left out in the cold. Again. Much as I like and use 1Password every day, I really really do not like the fact that they moved to a hosted model.

Standalone user here since 1Password 2.0, using it both on iOS and OSX. I feel that it receives pretty frequent updates, and doesn't suffer from feature bloat. It even synchronizes great with Dropbox. What are people's gripes with AgileBits' support of the standalone version?

People see progress happening on something they don’t use (because standalone is basically feature-complete) and just want to gripe. I’ve been a stand-alone user for literally as long as I can remember and have never had a single issue with 1P.

Re: 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

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"1Password X was designed for our hosted 1Password service and connects directly to your account." Nope, sorry. No. Never. I'd rather change password managers than rely on a small, niche company to keep the data secure and in sync -- larger players have a much bigger advantage here. I can see a future coming when I'll only use 1Password on my phone, and have things stored on a secure enclave. It will be slightly more…

Larger players being? I can only think of Lastpass when it comes to similar feature sets.

Apple's iCloud Keychain would qualify as a larger player.
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