Firefox will shut down its Lockwise in December. Passwords will be integrated into the browser

Now a couple of years ago, Mozilla changed the logo on its web browser. The old one was fine, but the new one was more modern and, in addition, they took the opportunity to take out four other logos: Firefox would be the brand, and the logo was like a circle that looked and stopped looking like the old browser logo; with the same brand they presented Send, Monitor, Lockwise and the browser would be Firefox Browser. The first to fall of the four was Firefox Send, and the password manager will be with you soon.

Because that's what Lockwise is today. The problem? Well, in my personal and non-transferable opinion, I think it doesn't make much sense to get a password manager independent if an extension is not going to be released so that we can use it in any other browser. If Lockwise can only be used in Firefox, then it seems logical to me the step they will take in mid-December: the passwords will continue to be available and synchronized in the browser, but no longer in the mobile applications.

Updated to make it clear that passwords will continue to sync with a Firefox account. What will die will be mobile apps. The latest Nightly of the desktop browser continues to have the same section, and with the same name, which we can access now. If you use mobile apps, you will have to forget them and use the browser to keep checking the passwords.

Lockwise apps will no longer be updated or supported

«The Firefox Lockwise application will no longer be updated and supported by Mozilla and will not be available in the App Store and Google Play stores. After that date, current Lockwise users will still be able to access their saved passwords and password management on Firefox desktop and mobile browsers.

Right now and until they close, Lockwise is also available as an iOS and Android app. As of December 13, if we want to check our passwords on an Apple or Android mobile device, we will have to do it from the web browser. Simply Lockwise will be absorbed by the browser, but the passwords for the desktop version will be where they always have been.

If you have a Firefox account, you've probably already received an email informing you of the changes. What they have not mentioned or found in the Mozilla blog es what will happen to Monitor. It is likely that it will continue working as before, that is, the browser will notify us when Mozilla finds out that one of our passwords has been compromised by an attack on a web service in which we are registered.

The only certainty is that Mozilla has already discontinued two of the four services that coexisted under the Firefox brand. If these are steps back to get a run, welcome.