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>> 2. On Mac it's tied specifically to Safari. I use Safari a lot but if I'm in a different browser then my passwords are unavailable.

> Yeah, this is super fucking weird. You'd think this would be connected in some fashion to "keychain", but nope

No it's not. I don't want some exotic product connect to a domain I have passwords in and prompting me for access. The password should be tied to the product you used to login with.

This is a misunderstanding of keychain vs. lastpass. One is designed to remember "safari passwords" or any swift/cocoa application implementing keychain. One key feature is: once stored in Keychain this information is only available to your app, other apps can't see it.

Lastpass and other similar products are designed as a data warehouse / vault for you security items. From there, plugins in browsers etc. can take over.

I will totally agree with the fact that the GUI is frustrating at best.



But on iOS I can use keychain from apps to find login information that is stored from Safari?




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