Reviews for 1Password: Password Manager
1Password: Password Manager by 1Password Devs
Review by Firefox user 17051350
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 17051350, 4 years agoI wrote a frustrated review to start but deleted that with my new understandings that might help first-timers like me.
First, this doesn't automatically make your passwords better or accounts safer. All this does is remember your bad old passwords. You have to manually go in and change all the passwords. As in, go to every site one at a time, go to your account, go to "change password" and then have 1P come up with a new password that you manually copy and paste. It'll remember the password, but you're doing most of the groundwork which seems like it will take a long time. Second, you can help it get started by downloading your saved passwords from your browser then uploading them into the 1P site. Still, it's just remembering your old, crappy password and not doing anything on it's own to make your accounts more secure until you go through the sites, one by one, updating them with the random password 1P generates. And if you're like me, that's a lot of sites. Third, I still haven't figured out how to get into, say, my email account if I'm not home or using a public computer. If I get 1P to change my password to some random letters and numbers to make it safe--great! But then when I need to check my email on a friend's computer, how do I do that? I'm seeing some things about 1P Anywhere but haven't gotten anything definitive yet. So keep that in mind if that's important for you.
First, this doesn't automatically make your passwords better or accounts safer. All this does is remember your bad old passwords. You have to manually go in and change all the passwords. As in, go to every site one at a time, go to your account, go to "change password" and then have 1P come up with a new password that you manually copy and paste. It'll remember the password, but you're doing most of the groundwork which seems like it will take a long time. Second, you can help it get started by downloading your saved passwords from your browser then uploading them into the 1P site. Still, it's just remembering your old, crappy password and not doing anything on it's own to make your accounts more secure until you go through the sites, one by one, updating them with the random password 1P generates. And if you're like me, that's a lot of sites. Third, I still haven't figured out how to get into, say, my email account if I'm not home or using a public computer. If I get 1P to change my password to some random letters and numbers to make it safe--great! But then when I need to check my email on a friend's computer, how do I do that? I'm seeing some things about 1P Anywhere but haven't gotten anything definitive yet. So keep that in mind if that's important for you.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey there,
Thank you for taking the time to write this review!
Yes, 1Password is a tool designed to store and manage all of your passwords. And no, it will not automatically or automagically change all of your passwords for all of your accounts because that’s not (currently) possible, since every website is built and designed differently, but not only that, it would also be an extremely intrusive and privacy-breaking action that we most certainly will not be comfortable offering! Our users’ privacy is extremely important to us :)
The transition to a password manager is not always an easy one. When you start with 1Password it will let you know how many websites and passwords from your list are weak or compromised, and you will need to go into each website and create a strong new password to improve your security. But once you’re done with that initial transition phase, you will be good to go and know that you are oh so much safer online! Not only that, you will never find yourself in the same situation again because 1Password will be there to generate strong passwords automatically for you from now on.
As for your question - if you have specific accounts or services that you would like to be able to log into without 1Password’s help, it is best to generate a strong memorable worded password for that website/service. That way you will be able to memorize it and log into it on any device. Simply open 1Password’s generator and change it from “Random passwords” to “Worded passwords”, or generate them here instead: https://1password.com/password-generator/?type=memorable
If you have further questions or require assistance with anything, do email us to support@1password.com and we’ll be happy to help!
Thank you for taking the time to write this review!
Yes, 1Password is a tool designed to store and manage all of your passwords. And no, it will not automatically or automagically change all of your passwords for all of your accounts because that’s not (currently) possible, since every website is built and designed differently, but not only that, it would also be an extremely intrusive and privacy-breaking action that we most certainly will not be comfortable offering! Our users’ privacy is extremely important to us :)
The transition to a password manager is not always an easy one. When you start with 1Password it will let you know how many websites and passwords from your list are weak or compromised, and you will need to go into each website and create a strong new password to improve your security. But once you’re done with that initial transition phase, you will be good to go and know that you are oh so much safer online! Not only that, you will never find yourself in the same situation again because 1Password will be there to generate strong passwords automatically for you from now on.
As for your question - if you have specific accounts or services that you would like to be able to log into without 1Password’s help, it is best to generate a strong memorable worded password for that website/service. That way you will be able to memorize it and log into it on any device. Simply open 1Password’s generator and change it from “Random passwords” to “Worded passwords”, or generate them here instead: https://1password.com/password-generator/?type=memorable
If you have further questions or require assistance with anything, do email us to support@1password.com and we’ll be happy to help!
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- Rated 1 out of 5by aaFn, 4 days agoCrap application, intrusive, pop ups all the time. Obscure ways to configure, tries to be "intelligent" but of course is not and then hides its internal "guessed" configuration, much less flexible and customizable than Keepass.
When imposed by companies, have to use it, else avoid like hell ! (and do not use it for personal side, your data is on a cloud and a company which is not trustable !) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 5951631, 8 days agoIf you already have 1password account, that has some kind of order, this extension will ruin the order you created by duplicating records you created with records called "Sign in" or something.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Garett, 11 days agoWorks well for the most part, but it can get annoying when I don't want to save a particular account used for log-ins. The pop-up should have a "No, and don't ask me again" option so that it doesn't come up every time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19433288, 21 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Liang, a month agoIt works but introduces severe performance degradation, you can prove this by going on browserbench and running the test with it disabled and compare
- Rated 1 out of 5by syldub, a month agoNul. Intrusif au possible. Je dois utiliser 1Password car mon entreprise l'impose... mais KeePass est largement plus adapté. On a sans arrêt des popup au cours de la navigation. Dommage, les options qui auraient pu être intéressantes pour être moins pollué ne sont pas paramétrables. Insupportable. Désinstallé direct.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19025062, 2 months agodescent add-on. Please add a mobile compatible version!
- Rated 4 out of 5by mokidokie, 2 months agoI've used this for years with no problems, but recently (within the last few months) it's been hyper-aggressive with the pop-up prompts - even when not signed in. Click out of it and immediately it comes back when you focus on the next field on the same page. It's gotten so bad I've had to disable the extension until the time i actually need it, and then once i'm done i have to disable it again. Not sure what the heck they changed on the back end but it needs to stop.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tracy, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18575225, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nikola, 2 months agoIt works good in most of the time, but sometimes it doesn't. Mostly when it comes to OTP it could make mistakes, and also auto-fill sometimes won't work. But it's ok overall..
- Rated 3 out of 5by alexzm1, 3 months agoWorks Ok for most of the web sites but it is buggy and doesn't work if I try to use my access key to login in account.samsung.com, it works for other browsers like Chrome and Safari but not in Firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by sharxx47, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DonCan94, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Niels, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tiago, 4 months ago1password is great, but this extension - omg.
This is true for all extensions actually, including mobile.
It will just assume that you want to use 1password for everyfield: name? age? postcode? etc... the 1password autocomplete will hijack, hide buttons, misbehave when arrows are being pressed for the default/browser values, etc...
It's the most annoying thing - you have to chose: have a good password completion experience and a terrible for everything else form related? Or the inverse? - Rated 5 out of 5by versita, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19526320, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Arajin, 5 months agoHorrible!!
I had to change password manager because of lastpass not being able to prevent a data breach every other week so i opted for 1password!
I regret the day i chose this slopy mess! 1password is comically bad in everything it does - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19510897, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Chris Hayes, 5 months agoUsed 1Pass for about 7 years. Generally pretty solid, and usually the first to adopt new security practices. I like how smooth 2FA is.
The Firefox support could be better—the app always says "Firefox needs an update". Might be Snap related. Otherwise it functions fine. Sometimes the password autofill replaces fields that should be left alone.
1Pass uses a secondary password, called a "Secret Key", it's required when you use a new device. Be aware that you absolutely cannot lose this.
To the reviewer calling it "enshittification"—that's not what that word means. 1P has had secret key as long as I've used it (since 2019), that's long before Cory Doctorow even came up with that word. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19479445, 6 months agoThis addon just never works. Constantly being taken to the website to log in for some reason. I don't want a session open to my password manager in my browser. This extension should integrate with the desktop app...not the website. That is how it used to work, if the desktop app was unlocked...the extension worked. Poor browser addon is going to convince me to leave this trash behind...