Brain Assassin

So, dur­ing the last few weeks I’ve been look­ing for a pass­word man­ager. I recently stum­bled over Robo­Form which is a quite inter­est­ing prod­uct if you’re look­ing for a pass­word man­ager that runs in your browser and acts as a form filler. I tested it for a few days but I didn’t really like it all that much. Robo­Form is con­ve­nient but it only works within your browser. I’d like to have my pass­word man­ager avail­able to me all the time, though. Plus, you absolutely have to pay for Robo­Form after a trial period  of 30 days or it will become seri­ously crip­pled in its functionality.

That’s why I once again turned to KeeP­ass which I’ve used for a short while a few years ago. So, I installed KeeP­ass on my sys­tems and dropped the heav­ily encrypted data­base in my Drop­box account. After con­fig­u­ra­tion I imme­di­ately dis­cov­ered the awe­some poten­tial of a fea­ture called Auto­Type: Just set the focus on the con­trol accept­ing your user­name, press your defined short­cut and the magic hap­pens. KeeP­ass logs you in with the cre­den­tials you pro­vided. Nice, you might think. Well, it didn’t work all too well in the browser. I dis­cov­ered a few scripts on Userscripts.org but not one of them worked as I wanted them too.

No prob­lem, I thought. Just cre­ate one your­self … and here it is: KeeP­ass Auto­Type Enhancer. This script sets the focus on any user­name field it detects on a web page. You can con­fig­ure the script to even focus con­trols that are out­side the view­port so that the browser scroll as nec­es­sary. If you don’t, it will ignore con­trols out­side the view­port. I’ve imple­mented the short­cut CTRL+ALT+S to man­u­ally focus on the user­name field. The short­cut will always set the focus on the appro­pri­ate field even if it isn’t inside the view­port, thus ignor­ing the switch pro­vided in the script. Enjoy!