# Passbolt - Open source password manager for teams

> Passbolt is an open source password manager designed for collaboration. Securely create, manage and monitor your passwords. Share them instantly with your team.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/passbolt](https://chrome-stats.com/d/passbolt)

## Overview

- **ID:** `passbolt`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** passbolt
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 34,592
- **Weekly downloads:** 897
- **Rating:** 4.44 / 5 (59 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.15.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-27
- **First published:** 2016-02-24
- **Size:** 5.49 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/passbolt/)
- **Website:** [https://www.passbolt.com](https://www.passbolt.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/passbolt/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/passbolt/privacy/)

## Description

Passbolt is a collaborative, open source password manager ideal for teams and organizations. It allows you to securely generate, store, and share passwords across devices and browsers, enhancing team productivity with features like shared folders, user access control, and detailed audit logs. Built on OpenPGP encryption, Passbolt offers true end-to-end security and gives you full control over your encryption keys. Whether hosted in the European cloud or self-hosted for complete data ownership, Passbolt ensures privacy by design without trackers. Its open API and AGPL license make it extensible and transparent, trusted by businesses, governments, and privacy-conscious groups alike.

This extension is essential for enabling advanced security features such as password autofill on web pages. Get started with Passbolt today to boost your team's security and collaboration with a reliable, privacy-focused open source solution.

## Rankings

- #391 — Overall
- #99 — Privacy & Security
- #3 — source
- #9 — team
- #10 — source code
- #15 — resource

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `*://*/*`
- `alarms`
- `cookies`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users generally find Passbolt easy to use, reliable in self-hosted/company setups, and suitable for teams. Recurrent negatives: the Firefox add-on can break or slow some sites (notably YouTube), and many users object that the browser extension is required to access the web vault.

### Pros

- Reliable and stable in private/self-hosted and company deployments (multiple users report it works flawlessly)
- Easy to use with a good user experience
- Suited for teams/enterprise use

### Cons

- Causes browser performance/compatibility problems on some sites (notably YouTube) — users disable the addon to restore site functionality
- The extension is required to access the web vault/site (users complain they cannot browse passwords without installing the addon)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/passbolt)