can I prevent LastPass from asking to save every URL I copy?

[nrflist]

Hello Community,

For my job I copy & paste many URLs.  LastPass (free version) is offering to save many of them and I have to dismiss the message every time.  Is there a setting somewhere that I can change to prevent this?

[andrew735 · Accepted solution]

Definitely not expected to be prompted here. Any chance you can share the website where this occurs so we can prioritize a fix for it?

In the meantime you can also disable the prompt by doing the following:

1. Right click on the LP icon

2. Click on Options

3. Go to Notifications

4. Uncheck "Offer to save addresses"

[nrflist]

Thanks for the reply.  I followed your instructions (and also found the Notifications settings on the desktop app and changed the setting there).  That worked!   But when I toggled "offer to save addresses" back on to test a few websites and report back to you, the glitch was gone.  Previously I know it happened when I was sharing links to dropbox files/folders.  Could it have been recognizing websites I have stored credentials for and offering to add the URLs to the records for those sites?  Who knows.  If it starts happening again I'll come back here and update you.

[nrflist]

I'm back to share that after I re-enabled "offer to save addresses" AND restarted, my LastPass account has tried to save absolutely every copied/pasted link. And sometimes it holds up the pasting process until I dismiss the popup. Here's a batch from today. I am going to go ahead and change the preferences so this doesn't continue. Good luck to developers trying to eliminate this headache for others! I'm using Chrome, if that helps.

[andrew735]

Thanks for getting back to us @nrflist ! Could you possible share any more details about how you are copy/pasting the urls? Does this only happen when copy/pasting URLs or also any other text? Does it only happen on a certain website that has the links you are copying? Do you use another extension to copy/paste perhaps?

[nrflist]

I'm copying them from the address/search box in Chrome, and usually pasting them into links in gmail. It doesn't happen with other text. It happens on all websites. I'm not going through any other extensions. I keep the LastPass extension enabled.

[andrew735]

Thank you for the details. We can reproduce the issue and are investigating.

[sdbaker22]

Hi,

I have the same experience. However, I find it happens for any text I paste into the gmail link dialog box. The text can be an actual URL, a filename and path, or just any random text.

I'm using Chrome with the LastPass extension. I also have

• adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools
• google docs offline

Full example using file and path name (works exactly the same as a URL or any_text). ()ee below for an example with just text.) I copy a URL from one chrome tab (highlight the URL, ctrl-c) In gmail, I highlight the text I want to show for the link:

type ctrl-k brings up the link dialog box

ctrl-v to paste the link into the dialog box.

Then click on "OK" Each time I do this, LastPass asks me if I want to save the URL.

Abbreviated example with any text (in this case: Then click on "OK")

OTOH, if I only paste the URL directly into the gmail message, last pass does not offer to add the URL

Similarly, if I use the same process inside of a google doc, lastpass does not ask me to "add address"