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Is there a simple app that can transfer everything easily? Like my favorites, browsing history and everything, including autofill setting and whatnot? I really just don't want to redo everything and essentially start fresh.

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Thank you everyone! I've used chrome for so long and the last time I tried fire fox over 13 years ago it didn't auto transfer anything, so I had no idea. And I will look into a 3rd party for password storage.

I'm not super savy with some things, so I don't really know what you mean by "self hosting" but I guess I'll look into that too.

Again thanks! Looks like I will make the switch!

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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

However, the bitwarden extension autofill isn't as good as the one built into Firefox or Chrome. It doesn't work well on some sites and you have to copy manually.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 1 year ago

That's odd to hear! I certainly believe it, because I've had this issue with other password managers in the past - but I haven't come across this with Bitwarden on desktop. Mobile however, I definitely get issues where it won't prompt the autofill button on the keyboard, sometimes tapping the password field will cause it to realize its there, other times I have to use the quick settings tile to autofill.

You might be able to workaround the problematic sites though using their custom fields attributes for logins.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I still prefer it because then I can have teh app on the phone and log into wherever from it, and if I'm in a foreign pc I can log into the vault and copy the passwords. It also works across browsers, so the firefox at home and the edge at work are synced by default