Okta Extension App for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By bran.nosk

  Works perfect! Could use polish.

  Hey Okta, thanks for keeping up the great work. :) This icon isn't retina as was the old icon from web DL. Easy fix for that? Update: Okta responded, which is sweet - and let me know they would fix icon in safari back to retina. *Update 2: The icon is still a blurry circle. ;) Update 3. It's Retina baby! I'd also like to add a feature request. Chrome version has keyboard shortcut for extension, does Safari allow for this as well? if so lets do it! :) Update 3. Still looking for a hotkey combo (e.g., CMD shift O) for all us Safari fans.

  
  
• By Mdhj

  What is this app doing?

  My company uses Okta for single sign on, which is fine. But in order to use the app portal, it basically forces you to use this plug in. What exactly does the plug in do? in addition to its apparent end user functionality, what else is it doing? does it log web data? are employers using it to snoop into employee browsing activity? is it sucking data and sending it anywhere? many people work at home, some people live in europe, it seems like an extension like this could run afoul of privacy concerns pretty quickly. it would be nice to have a statement from Okta on this.

  
  
• By jdta

  Broken in the latest release.

  The Okta plugin was auto-updated yesterday at some time. And now it fails to load. I've tried restarting it several times; but it just flashes briefly in my toolbar and disappears. And I'm now locked out of several applications for which our security team requires the plugin, versus the web portal. Seriously, for a tool so important to many companies security and workflow, such lax QA is VERY dissapointing. UPDATE: I was able to fix this myself by uninstalling the plugin entirely, rebooting my Pc, and reinstalling Okta. So, looks like this isn't a full-up faulty build, but a glitched install script somewhere. In any event, all is now well, so back up to 4 stars.

  
  
• By 26333333

  Microsoft Watch experience takes another step back

  You complicated the terminology on the Microsoft Watch prompt. Yes/No was as clean and simple as it could've been... now you're prompting with "Yes, it's me" (non-standard acceptance prompt)? So you increased cognitive load for what reason? For a service that most users experience begrudgingly due to their corporate security, minimal and non-disruptive should be the goal. Our entire UX team got sidetracked in a meeting and spent 10 minutes discussing "Okta's new clumsy Microsoft Watch button labels". C'mon, guys.

  
  
• By Marathon Beginner

  Now Needs Excessive Permissions

  I don't use Okta to store passwords, but rather use it for SSO to various things we use at work. Before the latest update, I was able to use the Okta extension essentially as a set of bookmarks for work tools, and I would get signed on with SSO when clicking on the icon in the drop-down. With this latest update, the drop-down requires full permission on whatever site I'm currently on, which I refuse to give Okta. This didn't need access to that level of data work previously, and it still doesn't.

  
  

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