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LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ? I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway. Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.

The real question is why are you still using IE8?

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

#12
LastPass (which is awesome, by the way) gets used maybe 15 seconds a day... I'd say that keeping the interface high-density and therefore fast is more important than aesthetics.

Almost all interaction with LastPass is done through the browser bar anyways. You only have to go into the website when you've got a complicated thing to do.

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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post #11
post #5

Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ? I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway. Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.

The real question is why are you still using IE8?

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Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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post #11
post #5

Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ? I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway. Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.

The real question is why are you still using IE8?

"I'm at work"

I can choose to use a Firefox stand alone install, but that does not have flash set up. And the world is still lonely without it.

In essence, I have been too lazy to find a better solution than the "it's there and it just works" solution..

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

#15
This is so incredibly low density. It's painful. It ignores existing categorization, I have no idea what the checkboxes are for.

Why are the mass applicable actions thrown in with completely random things. LastPass is an eye-sore, but it's 10x more functional than this.

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

#16

Nice. I think the font is too big. I can only see roughly 20 items on screen at a time, compared too 35 on the original site. Besides that, it seems to capture all the functionality of the original site, while giving it a fresher look.

Should also ditch the animations. I know, they're pretty, but it just. slooows. eveerrryythinnn [connection closed by client]

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

#17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real question is why are you still using IE8?

"I'm at work" I can choose to use a Firefox stand alone install, but that does not have flash set up. And the world is still lonely without it. In essence, I have been too lazy to find a better solution than the "it's there and it just works" solution..

Try out Chrome frame. It's an IE plugin that uses Chrome's rendering engine instead of IE's. It can be installed without admin privileges so it should work in almost all work environments. http://www.google.com/chromeframe

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'm at work" I can choose to use a Firefox stand alone install, but that does not have flash set up. And the world is still lonely without it. In essence, I have been too lazy to find a better solution than the "it's there and it just works" solution..

Try out Chrome frame. It's an IE plugin that uses Chrome's rendering engine instead of IE's. It can be installed without admin privileges so it should work in almost all work environments. http://www.google.com/chromeframe

I have that actually :\ Google blog posts stopped displaying after I installed it. I thought that was slightly ironic.

Re: LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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post #5

Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ? I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway. Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.

Note that among semi-technical users IE8-and-down usage is less than 3% of visits, and can only be expected to go down.

LastPass is almost certainly going to have 1% or fewer visitors using IE8.

It would be absolutely reasonable if their site looked ugly to users of unpopular, old browsers that weren’t even good when they were knew.

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