Internet Explorer 7 with Robo Form toolbar

I installed today Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 just to see how Robo Form integrates into it, and I must say that it integrates quite well.

It took a while to get IE7 installed as I kept getting an error like:
Internet Explorer 7 could not be installed. You must restart your system to confirm that any changes to your system are undone. After restarting, follow the "Internet Explorer Troubleshooting" shortcut on your desktop to get more information. Of course that after stopping Windows Defender (the anti-spyware I use) it worked installing it, even without following their registry fix guide.

First look on IE7 beta 2 with Robo Form toolbar installed:



Yes, those shinny buttons of IE7 are the first thing you observe. Next the useful multi-tabbed option. Last but not least you can see the way Robo Form toolbar integrates with IE7's design. If you hover on a button you can also see the explanation in the lower bar of IE7. Nice and also working well (referring to stability).

Of course that being a beta version there is still a lot of work to do. First of all, IE7 went to about 41Mb of memory usage with only 2 tabs opened, while Maxthon with 3 tabs was only at 12Mb of memory.



Ok, that being said I think IE7 will be recovering very fast the ground lost due to FireFox. If they fix those memory leaks they might even get me to stop using Maxthon and switch to IE7, who knows. Anyway, I'll end up saying that I also like a particular feature called Quick Tabs, where you see a preview of all the tabs opened (might be good if the pages would be functional in the preview window).



I tested this using Robo Form 6.7.3 (latest version) don't know if previous versions work as well as this one. If you want to update to the latest version, use one of these links to do so: Robo Form 6.7.3 or of Pass 2 Go 6.7.3

Robo Form System Error

Yes, no hero is perfect. Before updating to Robo Form 6.7.3, I've had a first Access Violation. Of course it didn't affect anything, I only had to restart Maxthon and Robo Form started to work again.
How did the error look like? Well there's a screenshot below, where you can read the report:
"This is an internal error report. Please click Yes and it will be sent to RoboForm server. No personal information wil be sent, only the technical data to help us fix this bug. If auto send fails, email file _rf.log from your temporary folder to ask (at) roboform.com. You can see where your temp folder is by typing %TEMP% into Address bar of IE browser."
So just like Microsoft, it asks you if you want to send an error report to roboform.com, with details about the error. Good thinking from them, as it doesn't require more effort from your side.



Now, it's interesting what dlls are reported in there as affected. The problem I think it's because of the theme that Robo Form loads and uses to integrate in the browser. Because one of the dlls affected is uxtheme.dll. Among others, uxtheme.dll is the file used by Windows XP to manage the windows styles. When you first install Windows, it comes with a few predefined themes, and Microsoft locked their UXTheme.dll to prevent you from adding additional themes. That's why I think Robo Form cracked this time, as somehow they got around the uxtheme.dll and Windows didn't like that.

Ok, enough speculation for now. Found an error, submitted a report, restarted the browser and everything went back to normal. I still recommend Robo Form as it's the best password manager out there, and if you don't have it installed you should do so by using one of these links: Robo Form 6.7.3 | Pass 2 Go 6.7.3 (it's the portable version of Robo Form, that you can install on a USB drive)

Robo Form 6.7.3 released

Yap, new version released. Robo Form 6.7.3 changes:

• Mouse-based keyboard for entering Master Password to fight keyloggers. Now this seems strange to me, as I've just installed Robo Form and when going to the Security tab the same old window for entering the Master Password is shown - and typing using the normal keyboard works. In my opinion there should have been an image-based keyboard that would allow you to click on the desired letter/digit. Maybe it's something in the technology used, so that they trick keyloggers.


• Improve integration with Windows Vista. This doesn't need additional description, if you have the latest Windows Vista Beta 2 installed, you have better usage of Robo Form.


• Aff Suffix to Name in form filler. Again something that I only guess what it does. Thing is this, if you're affiliate for Robo Form (like I am) you can have your customized links, that look something like "www.roboform.com/?affid=spuby. The aff sufix is spuby in this case. I think that when someone installs Robo Form from an affiliate link, the first window that appears has in the Name section the affiliate id suffix.

If you want to update to the latest version, use one of these links to do so:
Robo Form 6.7.3 or of Pass 2 Go 6.7.3

Robo Form 6.7.1 and 6.7.2

Yes, I know, these updates have been released more than two weeks ago and I'm posting just now. I was lazy, what can I say. Robo Form 6.7.2 is the latest version and it added only some changes for the Pass2Go (portable Robo Form), more specifically: "Add more options to Portable.ini file to better control Pass2Go startup". Note that the Pass2Go program is designed to be installed and use on an USB drive (you can install it onto a fixed drive too, but that wouldn't help you in any way, if you don't want to have it on an USB just stick with Robo Form).

Robo Form 6.7.1 brought some changes too:

• Fixed phone and social security number format in Australian identity. Actually in the Australian identity they changed only the Phone format, as the Australians don't have SSNs ;). The Social Security Number format change was done in the US identity. Here is a small screen on the phone format change (sort of before/after):
  
  


• Clone Instance and Copy/Paste Instance commands in Identitiy Editor. Yes, these options are now available for identities too. You can right-click an identity and using the Clone function you can add an exact copy (except that its name would be different to avoid overwriting).
  
  


• Improve import of Contacts from Outlook. Now I've tested the import from Outlook option before version 6.7.1 and also after it, but there are no changes in the process so I assume they improved the speed of the conversion.

Now, if you want to update to the latest version, use one of these links to do so:
Robo Form 6.7.2 or of Pass 2 Go 6.7.2