LastPass Support

[Cary]

Because of some limitations with RoboForm supporting anything above and beyond IE & FF based browsers, I am looking to switch to LastPass. It is a fantastic and well thought out application. What's the chance of you working with them to get support included in Avant?

Cheers...

Moved to AB Discussion. -DrDrrae

[Cary]

Well, after posting this I started configuring Avant a bit. And guess what? LastPass showed up in the Plug-ins. After activating them, I have full LastPass functionality inside Avant! One more reason to switch from RoboForm. LastPass works for IE, FF, Avant, Chrome! Going to try Opera now, but at this point I think I am a LastPass convert!!!

Cheers...

[bigbearmike]

I have the same problem - anybody any idea what "configuration" needs to be made to get the LastPass plugin to show?

[bigbearmike]

I've installed LastPass, and imported all my login/password data from RoboForm.

I have both IE8 and Firefox installed (with both of which LastPass works fine) but my preferred browser of choice is Avant.

The plugin icon does not show in Avant - and I just can't seem to find a way to make it do so. I'm mystified.

Help? Advice? Please!

[kudos]

Enable within options: Tools >> Avant Browser Options >> Add-ons >> IE Plug-ins ENABLE LastPass Toolbar
To show the toolbar: View >> Toolbars >> LastPass Toolbar



Merged Similar Posts - kudos

[bigbearmike]

SUCCESS!!

Thank you - I'd seen the items "LastPass" and "LastPass Fill Forms" and I'd checked those - but I didn't notice the item "LastPass Toolbar" further down.

My bad! - May I serve as an example to orhers! LOL

[bigbearmike]

Ooooops!!

I spoke too soon.

Yes, that procedure makes the toolbar appear - but it's unusable since, the instant I change tabs, the LastPass icon disappears, leaving an empty and useless toolbar.

Anyone any advice?

[kudos]

Looks like something is broken in LastPass v1.50. I just tried with v1.40 (available from https://lastpass.com/releases/) and it seems to work fine with multiple tabs, but I haven't done a thorough test...

[bigbearmike]

Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in the middle of this one. You say LastPass (or at least 1.5) is 'broken' - whereas LastPass say that the previous version didn't work with Avant either, because AVANT is 'broken'!!!

Which sort of leaves me with nowhere to go - I either have to do without LastPass or without Avant.

The latest answer I got from LastPass was ..
"I'm saying Avant is fundamentally broken, and we don't know how to deal with their browser. To sum up LastPass' point of view:

Deleting every addon and then re-adding every add-on with every tab switch is horribly inefficient and we don't know why they'd do something so obviously disadvantageous to their customers. This is the slowest possible way we could possibly think to implement a tab browser, IE for all it's faults is orders of magnitude faster.

If they'd like to work with us to fix it we'd be happy to do so."

Personally I can see no alternative but to put up with RoboForm until I have time to transfer all my bookmarks and links over to Firefox where I CAN use LastPass - but surely there must be a lot of other users out there facing the same problems?

Disappointing.

[kudos]

When I said "broken", I was not implying blame but stating incompatibility. Sorry if I upset anyone!

I found the discussion on the LastPass forum - you (bigbearmike) must be pensbury.

Unfortunately Anderson (Avant's sole developer) is the only one who can comment on the un/loading plugins situation, but I'm sure that he's busy working on Avant v12 for now.

Were you able to test with an older version? My quick test showed that switching tabs in Avant v11.7.26 with LastPass v1.40 worked correctly. If you can confirm it too then maybe both sets of developers could find a common ground for working on a fix.

[bigbearmike]

I'll try. Then report back.

Let's hope.

[bigbearmike]

OK tried it .. ..

I uninstalled LastPass 1.5 and installed 1.46 - no difference!

I uninstalled LastPass 1.46 and installed 1.40 - success, up to a point. The LastPass toolbar AND icon remain when switching tabs - but logs out so I have to re-login every time I change tabs. Not sure if I'll get used to it, or it'll drive me mad. Let's see.

[kudos]

Have you passed the info on to the LastPass developers?

[bigbearmike]

I hadn't (having been away from home for a while) - but, I have now.

[polocanada]

I know there is a blame game between Lastpass and Avant about who's fault is it. Both. Lastpass added functionality and rendering it disfunctional completely in Avant (verison 1.4 worked with limitations) and Avant has a strage way of loading and unloading add-ons with every opened tab. So that even I managed to run Lastpass 1.5 in Avant 11.7 (IE 8.0), it works till a new tab is opened. Then both the lastpass page dies as well as the button. That's something Avant needs to fix. Here is a screenshot: http://i44.tinypic.com/wt9mpk.jpg. Thanks.

Merged. Please search before posting. -DrDrrae

[jockgabb]

Followed your instructions and looks as though its working, LastPass that is, now I can go on using Avant, Thanks.

[jockgabb]

Spoke too soon, like other post as soon as changed Tab it disappeared.

[kudos]

The last version of LastPass that was compatible with Avant is version v1.40 but unfortunately they have removed it from their website - you probably have to request it from them (unless anyone else reading this post has a copy and would share it).

[pkchu520]

I updated to the latest build 12 and LastPass plugin icon is missing. I found out the LastPass Toolbar option is not found here:

Tools >> Avant Browser Options >> Add-ons >> IE Plug-ins ENABLE LastPass Toolbar

Please help.

[pkchu520]

Why am I not getting any support from Avant Staff? I used to get help from Xiaobing but even she doesn't response anymore. Is she still with Avant?