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Comment by jen20 | Hacker News Reader

The electron rewrite was a significant step backwards regardless of features and quality. I cannot wait to ditch 1P.

How was it a step backward? I have noticed zero downsides to 8 compared to the previous version. I'm comparing the current version to the last version 7 I used. This electron hate is such a headscratcher for me.

Generally speaking, Electron apps are larger and slower than their native cousins. I just checked on my M1 Mac, and between the Safari extension (which somehow consumes more memory than the app itself) the main app, and various helpers / renderers, it clocks in at 410 MB of RAM. I'll give you that it's also acting as an SSH Agent, but that still seems rather large for the functionality.

Personally, I noticed a slowdown in responsiveness immediately when switching from 7 to 8.

It takes 10+ seconds to load the 1Password extension window in Firefox after some upgrade this year. They really screwed something up.

Loads instantly for me on macOS.

It's clocking in at 120MB on my machine and launches instantly. I don't get this blind hate for Electron, it has made software runnable on more platform than ever with less development resources.

I hear this, and I believe people, but it leaves me in a confused state because I don't understand. I (think) I've used them all, and the only password manager that is in the same class or better is bitwarden, which is also web/electron.

Previous versions of 1p are an existence proofs of something better!

I agree with this a lot.

I miss 1Password Mini in particular still (and no, Quick Access is not a replacement).

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