Why MacUpdate lets companies indulge in such deceitful advertising is beyond me. Keychain Access, the password storage function in your browser, or even an Excel spreadsheet should be more than sufficient.įor everyone else, the "Free" Dashlane is just a deceptive come-on, because you'll need, at minimum, the "Premium" version for which you'll pay an annual fee.Īs someone below noted, the price for the "Premium" version is pretty much in line with 1Password's. It stores "up to 50 passwords." Dear friends, if all you have to manage is 50 passwords, a password manager is way overkill. The crippleware (or "dumb down" if you prefer) version is "free." So the new application will not use the Electron framework which means our search is not over.Please.
Our customers trust us with their most sensitive personal data, and keeping their trust is a priority in every business decision we make. This is a high risk we are unwilling to take. Too dependent on Chromium: Chromium is developed by Google and building our application on Electron would mean being highly dependent on it.The performances cannot be the same as using native components and we didn't want the user to have a bad experience because of this. Doubts about the performances: Even though it's a desktop application, it's actually a browser running a web application.The size on disk is an issue as well since we need to ship the whole Chromium with our application (there is a project for a Chromium light but it's still not ready yet). We felt like it was using too much memory for the use we have for it. Too much memory: As everyone experienced at least once in their life, Google Chrome can consume a lot of RAM and Chromium being the core of it does not break this rule.However, for companies who have the knowledge and resources for a native application, the Electron Framework doesn't really provide any advantage: the performance (CPU and memory) will always be worse than a native application, if those matters (and it always should 😉). It is an excellent option for companies who already have a website and want to provides their users with a desktop version, but don't have the resources to develop a native application. This demonstrates how easy it is to transform your web application in a desktop application which is the main purpose of Electron. Of course, there were still some bugs, and some features were unavailable, but you could log onto your account and access your passwords.
In a matter of days, we succeeded to have a working application on Linux (even though Linux is not a targeted platform). The idea behind this goal was to see how much work was necessary to transpose our web application in a Desktop context.
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