To replace the dedicated LastPass app for macOS, the company is releasing a new client for the Mac that’s based on a web app. While other apps, like 1Password, updated to implement the new system with their native apps, LastPass has decided to just remove support for the old native app entirely. The company cites changes made by Apple in Safari, and says the switchover is happening to “provide the best experience for our customers.”Īccording to the email, LastPass is making the change to “provide the best experience for our customers,” citing changes made by Apple in Safari 12 in 2018, which were designed to push developers toward offering browser extensions through native Mac App Store apps instead of the soon to be deprecated Safari Extension Gallery. The Verge reports that LastPass has sent emails to users of the old Mac app informing them of the switch. The new app is on the right in the above image. Support for the dedicated LastPass app for Mac will be dropped, with users being migrated to a new “Mac app” that is essentially a web app in a wrapper. Now the user experience is terrible.The popular password manager LastPass will be discontinuing its native Mac app, the company announced today. What the hell happened LastPass/LogMeIn? You guys used to be good at this stuff. Sometimes I've clicked the little icon in a form field and I'll get a pop up window on a totally different screen (different monitor), but the pop up is always half way off the screen and cannot be relocated. Clicking on an option to fill a form from the extension often does nothing. ![]() You are just in the LastPass app now, and you have to navigate back to Safari and try to use the extension symbol (see item 1).ģ. No option to select a fill, no popping back to the safari window. If it does anything at all, it just jumps to the LastPass MacOs app. Using the little shortcut buttons that appear in the field of a form literally never works now. The extension icon, when clicked, is extremely slow to populate, which means you stare at an empty white box for up to 10 seconds every time you click on it.Ģ. The LastPass extension for Safari has been an absolute mess since I upgraded to Big Sur.ġ. ![]() Safari LastPass Extension Version: 4.66.0 Built: Fri 17:09:05 GMT 0100 (Central European Standard Time) Binary Component: true (version 4.1.44, built 12:47:38).Firefox LastPass Extension Version: 4.65.0 Built: Wed 12:47:14 GMT 0100 (Central European Standard Time) Binary Component: true (Native Messaging version 4.1.44, built 23:33:27). ![]() Lastpass Standalone App version: 4.66.0 1142.Here is a screenshot of my activity monitor. The web extension of Lastpass however still works fine for Firefox. Clicking the Open Vault link on the Safari extension brings up the non-responsive MacOS App. The only way I can get it to stop running is using Force Quit via Activity Monitor. Clicking the red x to shut down the app doesn't work. Just after downloading the latest update, the MacOS version of the LastPass app doesn't respond anymore. I'm a Mac user with LastPass Premium account.
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