![]() ![]() ![]() The second box I unchecked is Show autofill icon in fields. If I understand correctly, when that box is checked, LastPass checks the Vault every time you load a new web page and displays the number of matching entries on the icon in the upper right. The first box I unchecked is Show Notifications (via Chrome’s Toolbar icon). It feels like LastPass is faster.Ĭlick on the LastPass icon in the upper corner of Chrome, then click on Extension Preferences. There are two checkboxes in the LastPass settings that I unchecked. ![]() Maybe I believe in it because I want it to work. I don’t know if this really makes any difference. I’m old and cynical and I fear the worst. But the acquiring companies reportedly have a record of, yes, milking existing customers to get a quick revenue boost, then spinning off profitable divisions. So far, nothing has changed, and perhaps the new owners will be good stewards and only make LastPass better. Now LogMeIn is being acquired by private equity companies, in a deal expected to close this summer. LastPass got a major update in March 2019 after nearly a year, I still don’t like the UI changes, and I think that’s when performance took a nosedive. LogMeIn bought LastPass in 2015, then left it mostly alone, other than some unwelcome price increases. There is some uncertainty about the future of LastPass. The LastPass extension uses CPU cycles when you click or do a search or use it to fill a form, but the CPU and memory usage don’t seem excessive. I’ve studied Chrome’s Task Manager (click Shift-Esc in Chrome – it’s separate from the Windows Task Manager and darned interesting if you like that sort of thing). There are scattered complaints about slowdowns caused by the LastPass extension in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. There’s no excuse for LastPass to respond that slowly. I have a monster computer on my desk – fast processor, 32Gb of RAM, SSDs. The first click on the extension icon is especially problematic: when I open Chrome the first time and browse to a website that needs a password and click on LastPass, I might be waiting 10-15 seconds before the dropdown menu appears. There’s a delay of one to several seconds for just about everything I ask it to do. It’s slow to respond the first time you click on it. The Chrome extension for LastPass is slow. But about its performance, and about the future of the company. Not about its security – the design makes it effectively impenetrable. For the first time, I’m worried about it. I’ve been using LastPass, and recommending it to everyone, for more than ten years. ![]() Okay, now keep that in mind while I complain. Wouldn’t you rather use LastPass, even if it’s a little slow, rather than have that happen to you? Of course you would. I don’t want anyone to read this and get excited and then have something go wrong and lose your passwords and suffer embarrassing hacks and have your identity stolen and wind up homeless and alone. For most people, the “best” program is the one that you already use. Are my passwords safe since I deleted this invitation? Is it time to save my passwords on a paper hidden somewhere? wth, this is so discouraging.If you’re using LastPass, I want you to keep using it! You need a secure way to keep track of passwords and confidential information. I read the blog entry and my main password does follow the safety practices so hopefully I am okay but why doesn't anything work? Is LastPass reworking everything? Is it going to work again eventually? Do I need to change all my passwords? (what a chore!) How can I change them if I can't edit passwords? Where did the share passwords invitation lurking in my vault come from? There is no one on earth I would want to or need to share my passwords with and no one I know would even ask or know that I use LastPass. In my vault, there was some kind of invitation pending to share passwords with some unknown entity (wth?) which I deleted. I don't make a practice of reading the blog so I never knew. Through investigating these problems, I found out LastPass was hacked in November. Clicking on the tool icon does not bring up the edit window, it does nothing. When I open my vault, I cannot edit passwords. LastPass is asking me to re-enter all my passwords it has saved already for every website I visit. ![]()
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