Feb. 1, 2009
We’ve just made a number of performance enhancements to Passpack. Most are on the back-end so your account will appear as usual. One exception is the quick search in your Password tab.
Previously the quick search would look up entries as you type. While quite fast for smaller accounts, it becomes sluggish on larger lists of entries.
The Quick Search is now a standard “type then press search” approach. Once you start typing, the search button will appear. Press it, or hit enter on your keyboard, to find what you’re looking for in your password list. Press list all to go back to remove all searches and go back to the full list.
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11 Comments
Hi Tara,
That sounds like a good plan alright.
A couple of things occur to me and figured I may as well throw them up here.
Perhaps it would make sense to set an if rule up for say people with less than 50 or 100 entries so that the speedy quick search still works, but for people with more entries than that they are presented with a search button.
Seems a shame to lose the quick filter when it works well on lower usage accounts (of course our own account must be over 200 entries at this stage :)
Also, something that I’ve been meaning to suggest for ages. As our account usage grows I’m finding a small frustration in the interaction of tags/search – well, there is none.
If I click on a tag to filter down to one type of password, and then I want to search within the results contained in that tag, I don’t think it’s possible. The same behaviour happens the other way round as well. I can search for a term, and then if I click on a tag to narrow that search further it just resets the search.
I’m not sure what the best way to get around this would be, as of course sometime after clicking on a tag you then want to do a complete search.
Anyway, like I say, just a thought. It’s meant to be my day off – step away from the computer…
Happy Sunday!
Alex
Shame, I’ll miss the quick search, it was a good feature of passpack, and worked brilliantly on my pack, although I have less than a hundred.
@Alex – thanks for the suggestions. Having a standard search will also allow up to add in some advanced options down the road. Now get offline! [wink]
@Rossoreed – I’m sorry, it was a tough call. I liked it too, but I’ve found that after just 1 day I’m already getting used to hitting the enter key when I’m done typing.
I have to be honest – I hate that the quick search feature is gone. I knew it was for performance features, but I cannot stand having to hit ‘Enter’. I’m all about minimum keystrokes to accomplish a task, and finding-while-typing was one of my favorite features and made up for the lack of a toolbar in my favorite browser :(
It seems that all my favorites have disappeared today. Is this a consequence of the modifications just made?
(Btw, I also liked search-as-you-type…)
Web site of Bank of America ?
What is your best guess when will you be able handle that site ? Since it is the biggest bank…..
The 1 click does not work
https://www.bankofamerica.com/
They may have different login methods for each states.
I am sorely disappointed to lose this feature. I, like others, am a keyboard shortcut fanatic and losing the live search feature just adds more keystrokes. Perhaps a user setting could be enabled to provide an option. I realize it’s the backend performance that is most impacted rather than the individual user experience, but I thought I’d still throw that out there as a suggestion. Regardless, I won’t abandon Passpack – I can’t imagine life without it. :)
I agree with John. At least there should be a user option to enable and get back the quick search thing. As a developer myself, I know the motto “never take a feature back from the customer/user” and I am beginning to see that it is a really true sentence :)
I loved this feature.
Another possible option could be to allow those using gears etc to still have the feature.
Surely there must be some way to save it!
(I’m not ignoring you guys… I’m listening silently, and closely)
….also wondering about bank of america :(