How can I keep my extensions separate from another Windows user?
I love LastPass and can't live without it. My wife can't stand it, and doesn't want to use it, or ever see it; but if I install it, she has to see it too (including update announcements, which particularly annoy her). She would prefer to have Firefox remember her passwords. How can we have distinct sets of extensions on the same machine?
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Yes, you can indeed have separate extensions and data and settings available to each separate user. To have different settings and extensions would be to create two separate profiles for each of you. To create another one see Managing Profiles
Hope this helps!
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Separate WinXP Logon User Accounts would do a better job of keeping data separated for both users.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/accounts.mspx
You would then have separate Firefox user Profiles automatically.
Thanks for the prompt replies. However, we do have separate Firefox profiles, and indeed separate WinXP accounts; but when I installed LastPass, it appeared for my wife too, and stopped her from using her Firefox-saved passwords, at least until she disabled it. Now she's wary of letting me add anything else!
When you installed LastPass do you recall if you installed it directly in to Firefox from this page? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8542/ Installed as a Firefox extension via an XPI file, it would have / should installed to only one Firefox Profile.
Or did you use a Windows installer executable and install it into Windows? If so, it may have been installed into any Firefox Profile, existing or new.
You might want to ask about that in the LastPass support forum. http://forums.lastpass.com/