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Firefox Lockbox Comes To Android To Ease Password Pain (cnet.com)
If you're a Firefox true believer, or even just a Firefox user, your password struggles just got a little easier with the release of Firefox Lockbox for Android devices. From a report: The password manager, based on login information already in Firefox, makes it easier to sign into apps as well. It integrates with login autocomplete systems in both Apple's iOS and Google's Android software, Mozilla said. It's not as fancy as password managers like LastPass, BitWarden, 1Password and Dashlane, and the only browser it works with is Firefox. On the other hand, if you're already in the Firefox world, it's basically already set up for you. There's no migration process as with dedicated password managers.
When something becomes more convenient, chances are it also becomes less secure.
It also becomes more complicated. That's where software bloat comes from--somebody says, "Gee, wouldn't it be convenient if I could lick my phone's screen and it would automatically encrypt my email? This feature would be easy to explain to grandma, too. I could tell her that it's just like licking an envelope to seal it shut!" And suddenly, app developers all around the world are writing lines upon lines of code to implement lick-gestures. (If you lick up the screen it encrypts, and if you lick down the screen it decrypts. But if you accidentally lick to the right in a dating app, it might send an obscene message...)