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.

Edit*

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!

  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    On top of what has been said on lower security, this is also much worse in terms of privacy. You are giving up your credentials to Google/Mozilla.

    Also they do not encrypt (when they do at all)website URLs, only the secret parts (passwords) so this is a downside as well. Anyone getting access (or Google/Mozilla) of the encrypted vault knows what apps/sites you have accounts on. Some password managers do encrypt everything

    But yes, primarily it is way easier to steal passwords from a browser, especially when it’s synced across many devices including some with lower security (a phone with just a pin, a phone lent to other people, a computer or tablet or phone let open to anyone to change music on Spotify, …)