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It's always annoyed me that Chromium-based browsers have never supported master passwords, in the first place. This is one of the biggest reason's I've always used a Gecko-based web browser as my primary browser.

I understand that Google wants users to always be logged into their Google account, so they have to make the built-in option worse than the cloud option, but that's no excuse for purposely making the built-in option insecure. If you're not going to make a secure password manage an option, don't include one at all.

I don't want my passwords stored on the cloud, for obvious reasons, and I'm not a fan of Linux keyrings relying on D-Bus for security, and considering that there's only one application that I would store passwords for, I might as well have them stored by that application, if it can do so securely.

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