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My company uses LastPass, but I found it too much of a hassle compared to the browsers own, built-in password management, so I don't use it.

But I do keep it installed, because their poorly developed browser extension hijacks way too much on any page with any <input> elements on it. I need to keep it around to be able to test my own work to make sure LastPass isn't fucking things up for my coworkers.

It's something to do with how they inject their UI into the page. It's particularly bad if you're trying to make a responsive grid layout. I've seen several incidences of the LastPass extension completely obliterating an otherwise very well-behaved page, on both my project and other websites. And because it's happening in extension code, it's not immediately obvious what is going on. All you see is a blank page, or a page with the intended UI all smashed into the bottom rows of the grid layout. It's also a bit of a Heisenbug, as the LassPass code races your own to inject the UI.



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