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I just switched password managers from LastPass, and Bitwarden's lack of multiple accounts on their browser plugin was a dealbreaker for me. Such a basic feature, especially if they want to get widespread adoption. Otherwise, anyone whose work uses Bitwarden basically can't also use it for their personal stuff without jumping through hoops.

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Aren’t you supposed to have your personal Bitwarden account and get work passwords shared to your account? I thought that’s how Bitwarden for organisations worked.

Ideally I'd want to keep my _personal_ personal stuff separate from my "work personal" (ie my personal logins, but the one for work accounts) separate from my shared work stuff. So I'd want two accounts, one for my truly personal accounts, and then one for my work-personal and have the work-shared connected to that.

There doesn't seem to be a security benefit of doing this if you encounter having to swap between personal-personal and work-personal.

It doesn't take me many seconds to swap accounts. LastPass allows you to be signed into two accounts at the same time in the same browser?

I forget if LastPass does — 1Password does (though I haven't actually used it in practice, because my work doesn't use 1Password). Idk, maybe it's not actually a problem, but it's how I like to organize things. ::shrug::

Lastpass allows you to link your personal-personal account into your work account, so that you can access your personal-personal data while logged into a work account. Work-personal accounts should be stored in a personal folder in your work account, then work-work accounts are in shared folders that cross multiple users.

I don't know how well this works across business and personal accounts, but you can use "collections" to share passwords between accounts.

I'm using that on my VaultWarden server to share data between different accounts and it works well for me. This may not work in your specific situation if your company manages your Bitwarden account, though.

Bitwarden's mobile app allows you to log in with multiple accounts. I think the desktop client does as well.

Not sure why the web extension doesn't. Might have something to do with autofilling or adding credentials to HTTP Basic Auth?

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