The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
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The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
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Re: The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
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Re: The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
#3I've run into the problem of web services not letting me store passwords. The reality is, if you let my password manager (safari jacks into OS X's keychain system) keep track of things, I'm going to use the random 12-digit alphanumeric password my password manager provides me. If you don't, I'm either going to use my shitty "brain" password or put it in my password manager anyway and just copy-paste it manually.
Thankfully, safari on both iOS and OS X has a toggle to ignore autocomplete=off, which I take advantage of liberally.
Re: The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
#4How does it break password managers? Does it prevent them from auto-filling in or auto-saving the password? I use passpack and enter/retrieve my credentials manually and so don't experience this and appreciate autocomplete=off.
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#5I don't think I've run into a situation where LastPass has been unable to auto-fill a form. Is this a feature of LastPass, or have I just not gone to sites that disallow autocomplete?
Re: The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
#6The issue may be moot--IE 11 ignores autocomplete=off.
And in any case, for the cases where this setting is effective, it doesn't break password managers--just set your password manager to not fill the fields, but use copy and paste for the password.
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Re: The war against autocomplete=off (2013)
#71password makes this never be an issue for me. ⌘+/ to log into anything with one stroke, unless I have multiple accounts for the site, in which case it's a couple of extra clicks.
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#8I don't think I've run into a situation where LastPass has been unable to auto-fill a form. Is this a feature of LastPass, or have I just not gone to sites that disallow autocomplete?
LastPass has a setting to respect autocomplete -- it's off by default because so many sites use it inappropriately.
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#91password makes this never be an issue for me. ⌘+/ to log into anything with one stroke, unless I have multiple accounts for the site, in which case it's a couple of extra clicks.
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#101password makes this never be an issue for me. ⌘+/ to log into anything with one stroke, unless I have multiple accounts for the site, in which case it's a couple of extra clicks.
Same for KeePass (Cntrl + Alt + A). Never had an issue now that I use it fairly consistently.
Key is I guess not using browser stores.