gHacks technology news » lastpass bookmarklet http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 LastPass Now Compatible With All Browsers http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/21/lastpass-now-compatible-with-all-browsers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/21/lastpass-now-compatible-with-all-browsers/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:48:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10033 ‘Remember LastPass? We reviewed the password manager and form filler back in September and came to the conclusion that it was one of the best password management software programs out there. To be more precise, LastPass is an excellent unobtrusive password manager for Firefox and Internet Explorer. It provides a secure environment for the passwords and integrates nicely into the web browser. One of the coolest features of LastPass is the ability to log into their website and manage the passwords there. This is excellent when accessing the Internet from a computer that does not have the Firefox or Internet Explorer plugin installed. And yes, there is also a mobile version of the service.

The LastPass team has been hard at work making their password management software compatible with additional browsers and devices. The first step is a set of bookmarklets that they have created. These bookmarklets can be used in browsers like Opera, Google Chrome, Safari and even the iPhone to make use of the stored passwords and form information of LastPass. All that needs to be done on the user’s part is to log into the LastPass website and drag the bookmarklets into the web browser.

Three bookmarklets are available: Login, Fill or Fill Form. Login will try to login the user into the website automatically that he is currently on. Fill will only fill in the information stored at LastPass while FillForm will fill out forms automatically. The website contains instructions for a few web browsers, make sure you read them thoroughly.

One could say that those bookmarklets could be a security risk. Imagine someone else accessing the computer where the bookmarklets are installed. That user could practically log into all websites that are stored at LastPass. The team has created a bookmarklet reset for exactly that purpose. This will reset the bookmarklets rendering all bookmarklets that have been created up to this point useless.

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