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roboform2go or sticky password?
sri:
In the case of password managers there really is no debate. RoboForm is the best.
mwfuss:
I used StickyPassword for quite a while and I was very satisfied with it until it began to interfere with some other programs in very strange ways (would not allow certain other programs to open secondary windows). I am now trying out KeePass.
johnfdeluca:
I've used RoboForm (RF) for years....it is the first thing i install on any new laptop. Well worth the price. The key features I use RF are:
* Password Manager: Pretty obvious here. The key drawback to this is that it only works with websites so other apps I use can't have their PW autofilled by RF.
* Bookmarks: Rather than using the Bookmarks in IE or Firefox, I use the feature in RF. Since I always have RF, I always have my bookmarks.
* Search box: This is perhaps the most useful hidden feature about RF. When saving a website as a bookmark, I can add text into the name and use the seach feature to quickly access a bookmark (and yes it has typeahead feature). This is how I access nearly all my bookmarks. I have "keywords" that I use to access each. If I want to access my American Express, I type amex in the search box and RF opens the website, plugs in my id and password and I am looking at my statement. I don't limit this use to just websites with passwords, but any website....it's only a shortcut away. I know some browsers have this feature but again, no matter which browser I use (and I use a few), all my bookmarks are there...no synching. The search box also has a lot of customizations so it can auto enter whatever I type into a website (such as google searches or pricegrabber searches or amazon searches, etc.). Like I said, this is where I spend 99% of my use in RF.
* Safe: I use this to store software keys, etc.
There is more but I think these are the best things about RF. It's one of those apps which never has once crashed, is worth the money, and has a good development cycle of updates. Sticky password may be as good or better....not sure haven't tried it but it has some big shoes to fill if it will replace RF on my machine.
Edit: I have no affiliation with RoboForm other than an end user.
J-Mac:
I'm planning to buy something to carry all my passwords with me (and save me time if I lose my laptop or have to reinstall OS). I heard that FF has a flaw that may let crackers retrieve your stored passwords. I also see people heare swearing by roboform (as a former opera-only guy, I didn't really test it).
There is a portable version of Roboform:
http://www.roboform.com/pass2go.html
Now I found:
http://www.stickypassword.com/
Has anyone compared those? Is the portable roboform less feature-rich than the standard version?
Thanks
-urlwolf (March 04, 2007, 12:04 PM)
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I have kicenses for Roboform Pro (2), Roboform2Go, and the PPC version. I have never tried Sticky Password, though.
Roboform and Roboform2Go are identical in every way, except of course you can take the 2Go version with you and use it on any PC you need it. Actually I am using the 2Go version on my desktop PC and it stays plugged in always. Might seem stupid, but I initially purchased it because I traveled a good deal when I was working, before I became disabled. Now I am pretty much housebound so rather than waste it I just keep it plugged into my main PC, and on the rare occasions that I do travel I take it with me. Why use it on a stationary machine? Because as I add more and more web sites to its database, if I were using the regular version, I would have to stop and copy the database over onto the USB key before leaving. On 2 occasions I forgot and was missing a number of passwords I needed!
I tried Keepass on two occasions, and all that I could find it was good for - in my world - was storing passwords for non-Internet-related programs/files/databases, etc. on my PC. As for using it to auto-fill logins on the web, it was not nearly as easy to use as Roboform. Roboform also keeps encrypted notes, as well as Identities. You can fill a form requiring name, address, phone numbers, financial info, etc. with one click - or automatically. But I recommend keeping a click necessary to fill rather than completely automatic - you may end up accidently filling and submitting forms on a page where you don't want to do so.
RF also has a warning pop up whenever you fill a form with financial info - credit card numbers, etc. You can turn that off but I like it personally.
Jim
rjbull:
I've used RoboForm (RF) for years....it is the first thing i install on any new laptop. Well worth the price. The key features I use RF are:
* Password Manager: Pretty obvious here. The key drawback to this is that it only works with websites so other apps I use can't have their PW autofilled by RF. -johnfdeluca (November 13, 2007, 10:20 PM)
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KeePass is good at that. It has a "cmd://" construct so you can call a program with the same Ctrl-U hotkey you would normally use to launch a browser with the URL.
* Bookmarks: Rather than using the Bookmarks in IE or Firefox, I use the feature in RF. Since I always have RF, I always have my bookmarks.
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I use the excellent bookmark manager LinkStash. LinkStash keeps secure passwords, so I've put most of the important KeePass ones into it as well. The very new LinkStash 2 doesn't seem to work on my old Win98 laptop, though, at least not yet, so I've gone back to 1.7.3 for now. Not missing anything critical.
* Safe: I use this to store software keys, etc.
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I sometimes do that with KeePass, but I'm tending now to put them into an encrypted MemPad file. Then I can keep all the relevant information together, copies of e-mails, and successive generations of keys if they change on upgrading, etc.
I didn't like what I heard of RoboForm's business model, with online activation on specific computers (correct me if I'm wrong.) And, I make out Web forms so seldom that it didn't seem worth making the effort to adopt it, especially if the program doesn't have good import/export features, thereby keeping you locked in.
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