I really looked forward to Keychain being available for Firefox...

I was waiting for months for Keychain to come out for Firefox. It's a bloody pain to copy keys from one place depending on which I needed. Although having the different levels of security does help for keeping your wallet and account secure. Keychain promised to clear that all up.

Except Keychain is like when you're searching for a key and it doesn't turn in the lock so you try another key, and then another, and then you come back to the first one and it turns out that it's just that the key sucks.

Yeah...Keychain sucks. I put off saying anything for a while because I kinda complain too much. But then more and more annoying things kept popping up.

When I first installed Keychain, it was a PITA. It kept asking for my password...which I thought might mean my key...because there was no way it would actually want my password for my Steem, right? Long story short, I'm an idiot and Keychain sucks, because it doesn't check if you haven't set up a password for Keychain yet before asking for a password. They clearly didn't go through all the steps when debugging.

So I go through setting up Keychain. Then I find that they have the same stupid password requirements that every application has these days of upper and lowercase and a number. Problem is this doesn't really make it that much more secure. It just eliminates all passwords that don't meet those requirements and makes the password a lot harder to remember in a lot of cases. That can save a lot of time when someone's doing a dictionary attack. I personally think that they should just recommend things to make passwords more secure, and maybe reject a few ones that are obviously insecure, like simple one word passwords followed by two numbers, or possibly even stuff in standard password dictionaries. Maybe just link them to a YouTube video about making more secure passwords.

But I digress.

Eventually I picked a shitty password that's a pain in the ass to type in, every day, because I'm on Steem every day. I would rather have a long password that's just multiple words in different languages mispelled with numbers replacing sounds and letters...but...I digress. I just dare you to try to break a password that can have mispelled words in as many as 30 languages, and numbers. I suppose I should start incorporating more special characters though... Cuz it's not like 7 words in multiple languages is hard to crack...let alone when they're not spelled right. There are thousands of words in every language. So many options. I should get better writing the letters of different languages though.

I digress again.

I picked a password.

The most concerning part, other than them adopting security practices that make no one more secure, unless you're someone making one word passwords with your birth date, is that they didn't go through the steps of the program during the debugging. They didn't check what happens when you first install it and don't go through their setup first. Hint: it's a nightmare. But, that will come up later.

They also didn't check what would happen when you don't put in your password or import all of your keys.

See, a good program would say "You haven't imported that key yet. Please import it now." and have a keyword import screen or something. Or better yet, click a button to load up a page to input it in, because the fucker closes if you click on anything else. And it's a pain in the ass to get to the window where you put in your keys.

Keychain also works kinda shitty doing various things with various sites.

Like in SteemPeak, when it times out, which is a security feature in the settings, every first thing you do throws an error...despite it actually going through.

It also just doesn't seem to work to claim an account with SteemWorld. Hopefully that will be fixed in the future. But, to be fair, it doesn't work with that other key saver thingie either. The creator's trying to sort it out...hopefully Keychain gets a bit better though.

Bottom line is that Keychain feels like a really crappy program that should still be in beta...or developed by Microsoft. They need to debug it more. Go through every step possible in the program! It's an important step in debugging that every developer needs to do dammit!

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Edit: I've started to try to get myself into the habit of unlocking the keychain before I upvote or comment to anyone when I haven't been on Steem for a bit, so that it doesn't error out.