Comments on: Passpack Style & Auto-login Updates

By: Vinod Naga

Vinod Naga — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:16:06 +0000

Tara,
could you publish your intentions to Internet Explorer? I can accept that Chrome is faster and I can certainly install it on my home and laptop computers. But Chrome is not authorized in my workplace so I’ll continue to have to use IE for half my passpack accesses.

By the way, I do use the favorites and that is helpful. But if I need to go to any entry outside my favorites (such as to update notes or the http link for a non-favorite item) it takes forever to save the update. The unpacking process is helpful as it shows the progress (“xx of yy entries unpacked”) but any subsequent save, whether under bulk editing or single tiny updates takes forever with no progress indicator…so I don’t know whether I should expect to wait 3 minutes or 10. The big issue in this is that every instance of IE whether a tab on the same window or a separate IE is locked – preventing me from doing any other browsing or work using IE. I have found increasing the IE priority in task manager to help speed things up but I’m not pleased with having to do that.

Could you add a progress indicator for the save/update process?
Could you separate the processing for a passpack operation from other IE activities – of course I could accept a longer time for a passpack save/update in exchange for letting me do other IE things.
Could you publish your future intentions towards IE? – for some of us IE is the only option.
-Vinod

By: Tara

Tara — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:03:33 +0000

@Vinod – The problem is most certainly IE. It is more than twice as slow as other browsers (with Chrome the absolute fastest!). So sorry, but there’s not much that we can do about that. I’ve heard the latest versions are faster.

If you have a lot of entries, you may want to set up favorites and only load those to speed things up. Here’s how that works if you haven’t set that up yet:
http://help.passpack.com/knowledgebase/idx.php/0/143/

Hope that helps!

By: Vinod Naga

Vinod Naga — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:03:15 +0000

passpack has become so slow! every time I make a tiny update to one of my entries, the save takes forever. Everything in the same instantiation of IE is unavailable (all other tabs) and there is no progress indicator to tell me if the save is working or if IE is locked up.

I have IE 7.0.5730.13 on XP SP3 running on an IBM Thinkpad T60 (Intel Centrino Duo T2400 – 1.83GHz) with 2.5GB RAM

please help – I may need to abandon passpack if simple updates take so long.