Is there any way that the Chrome extension can be ported to Steam?

Omen

I use Steam a lot and PayPal even more. But I seem to have more trouble than a man 1/2 my age manually copying/pasting the PayPal password into the Steam dialog. Is there a way that the Chrome extension for Steam be implemented and made functional? Please? (I'll say it as many times as you like). Please?



Michael (Please?)

DBrown

Michael, 1Password extensions are for browsers, only: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.



If you're copying and pasting credentials from 1Password into some other program, I hope you'll try the [url="http://help.agilebits.com/1Password_Windows/auto-type.html"]"auto-type"[/url] feature, instead.



I haven't encountered a form yet that it couldn't fill with a username and password.

Omen

David, that's an excellent idea! I think I just about forgot about this little tidbit. Very handy to have around (if you remember it, that is <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> )



The reason I even mentioned 1P with Steam is that Steam is built from Chrome, so the parts *might* be simiar, or not (mostly not)



Thanks again.

Omen

David,



I was back in Windows and needed to log into Steam. I remembered the "auto-type" function, so I thought I'd try it. Unfortunately, it didn't work <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />



It did recognize the screen that it should type the uid/password into, but when I clicked on "auto type", nothing happened. I tried it 2 or 3 times just to be sure it didn't work. Oh well.

DBrown

<img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> As I wrote, I haven't seen a form yet that auto-type wouldn't fill with username and/or password.



If you can tell me how "to log into Steam," I'd like to give it a try.

Omen

Sure, if you'd like to try. It's not a big deal since Steam usually remembers the username/password. But since you mentioned it <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />



Go to [url="http://store.steampowered.com"]http://store.steampowered.com[/url] . Up in the very top it says "Install Steam". Click and do so. When you want to login, click on the Steam icon on the desktop and a window comes up named "Steam Login" (which auto type correctly identified).



Btw - 1P works great with the Steam web login <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

DBrown

Hmm...so that confirms what I thought: Steam is a technology on which various games are based.



What does it mean to "log into Steam," then? Wouldn't you want to log in to a particular Steam-based game?

Omen

In my opinion, Steam is DRM for games done right. When you establish a Steam account (Valve software is the builders of this ecosystem - they initially built it to distribute Half Life, voted the best game of all time), you buy the "rights" to the game on the Windows and/or Mac platforms. You then purchase the game, and Steam downloads it to your hard drive. You can then run the game either thru Steam (the logging in part), or from a desktop shortcut, which basically does the same thing. You don't need to deal with SecurLok, or some other DRM that requires the game DVD to be inserted into the drive, or that modifies your boot sector to prevent piracy.



In my system, I have Steam installed on my iMac, MBPro, and Win7 Boot Camps on both machines. I buy the game once, and I'm entitled to run the game on both Win7 and OS X, if it's available. Of course, only one copy is active at a time. The real neat thing about this process (the Win/OS X is nice in itself) is that I can blow away my Boot Camp partitions (or heavens forbid OS X <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> ), reinstall Windows and Steam, then log into Steam and download all my purchased games again. To me, it's even easier than having the DVD's since the Steam installer also checks for updates to the games, and downloads/installs them for you automatically.



If all this wasn't great enough, Steam also runs very nice sales. I just purchased Far Cry and Far Cry 2 for a special weekend price of $5.00 (oh my, oh my).



So David, did I explain Steam enough to you, or should I go into more detail <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

DBrown

Nope, that's very helpful, thanks! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />