Left Ctrl+F in browsers stops working after logging into LastPass for Windows app

[nace71]

I noticed recently that the keyboard combo Left Ctrl+F stops working in Chrome, FF, IE and Edge after logging into LastPass for Windows.  Is anyone else having this problem and has anyone found a fix for it?

[_Pecos_Bill]

It's not just browsers. It's Notepad++ too. You can search google and look at their cache to see this was reported 

• Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:26 pm
• Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:30 am
• Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:51 am

Yet when you search for those posts on this site or use the saved links, they're gone.

[jpenny84]

The old Phpbb support forum that existed for over a decade was just shut down today. It will take some time for search engines to quit generating search results that link back to it.

They did migrate a chunk of old topics over to the new platform. You can use the search bar at the top to try and find what you're looking for.

[rbuckton]

I did some investigation and a task called BackgroundProcess.exe apparently gets started by LastPass to hook a keybinding for application fill, which seems to take over Left Ctrl+F. There's no setting or option I can find in the LastPass Windows app to change or disable this. It also seems to block Left Ctrl+D.

My temporary solution is to create a scheduled task that runs the following PowerShell script every few minutes:

$procs = Get-Process BackgroundProcess;
foreach ($proc in $procs) {
    $info = Get-Process -Id:$proc.Id -FileVersionInfo;
    if ($info.FileName -imatch "LastPass") {
        Write-Host "Found $($proc.Id). Killing task...";
        Stop-Process -Id:$proc.Id;
    }
}

That finds all tasks named "BackgroundProcess", filters it to ones with "LastPass" in the path, and just kills the process.

The fact LastPass takes over Ctrl+F is infuriating.

[GlennD]

Hi,

A ticket has been created for this issue and submitted to the team.

[Joshua83702]

Same issue - thanks for the follow up.

[joltting]

This isn't just limited to Ctrl+F ... This will also affects Ctrl+D randomly. Incredibly frustrating when playing a game and not being able to do Ctrl+D.... This Windows app needs a fix asap.

[Midnight508]

Right, they removed my post about this.  That's pretty sleezy.

[jpenny84]

Your complaint was posted in the old forum on August 25th. The cutoff for posts that were migrated over to the new discussion platform was early August.

[kavanagh21]

I can't believe you'd push out an update that stops one of the most useful key combinations from working, across the entire operating system. It doesn't work in Chrome, Word, Dreamweaver, Explorer - nothing. 

Amateur hour.