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Can someone explain what those password managers are doing better than Firefox?
I guess a bunch of things, as they are specialized apps:
As a personal addition, I would say that I simply want the cornerstone of my online security to be a product for a company that is specialized in doing that. I have no idea how much effort goes into the password manager from Mozilla, for example.
Yep, I know and it's very convenient. I discovered recently that bitwarden also has integration, but requires manually provisioning an API key. Not as convenient but quite nice as well.
I'm answering your comment but I'm grateful for those who have answered. You basically have more extensive needs that I have, which makes sense.
On my side:
I need to enter passwords in lots of places that aren't a browser.
If Firefox's password keeper meets your needs, then I would endorse using that, for sure.
(I use KeepassXC)
I use the notes section alot. I can store all kinds of related info. For example on sites that still use a username to login, I can put the email I used to sign up in the notes section.
I'll also do security questions answers here. Using a pasphrase generator for those is good. No one is going to check if your first dog's name really was "consoling-roving-activator-earflap" and no one can find it on your over sharing grandma's Facebook.
I'll also attach any license keys/relevant files for software, now those stay encrypted and backed up with the database instead of in a random folder of text files.
I thought I read somewhere that the build in browser password saves are not very secure.
This was maybe 5 years ago so i am guessing they have improved it?
In addition to what the others have said, with those other password managers you dont have to do much if you decide to change browsers some day.