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Saving Passwords on Chrome? Time to Panic!

03 May, 2011 by
Tiny Tip

Google Chrome has taken over from Firefox as the primary web browser for me and I believe so, that’s the case for many of you as well. As any normal user would do, even I have a habit of “Remembering Passwords” on some of the frequently used websites. Though I make it a point not to save passwords for highly private services like email, the “Remember Password” option is too catchy and useful to completely disable it. Well, if you are someone who saves passwords on Chrome, you are in for a shock.

The below infographic will tell you why it is time to panic

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So, all you need to do to take a peek at your passwords is to click on settings icon, going to Options and then to Personal Stuff and then click on Manage save passwords. It is true that the web browser is as personal as anything else on a personal computer and you must be given an option to edit your saved passwords, but seriously, the manner in which it is handled is way too dumb, not even a Master Password option? Really?

Update: For those who are wondering about Firefox having similar options, the thing is you get to choose a Master Password unlike in Chrome.

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  • http://tech18.com/ Vinay

    Good find bro!! It’s time for Google to remove that “Show” option! Thanks for the advice. :)

  • Rajesh

    up to my knowledge the same option is also available in Firefox 4.0 too.
    Tools-Options-security-saved Password – Show Password

    • http://techpp.com Raju PP

      You are partly right. Check my explanation at the bottom of the article.

      • Prince Kash

        The Old Mozilla (3.0) had the same issue. The ‘Master password’ option was recently introduced. Hopefully Chrome can do something similar.

  • Ondrej_T

    This is normal. Since Windows 95 (released 1995) the Microsoft’s operating systems began to be designed as multi-user OS. In this designa each user has to have its own logon profile to keep his data private. This applies to other multi-user operating systems as well.

    Let me remind that if any computer literate person is logged under another user’s profile he can access any passwords or private information of that other user. Whether there is a special button to reveal such password or not does not matter.

    If author of this article failed to noticed this I recommend to read articles some articles for beginners on Windows, Linux or Mac.

  • Adeeb

    this was also available on FireFox since V. 3
    I think also IE9 include such thing

    • http://techpp.com Raju PP

      Check the update at the end of the article

  • http://pctonic.net Ashutosh Mishra

    I think it’s something they’ll fix once they introduce support for separate Google profiles in Chrome. That way, you can get access to the data only after signing into your Google account. But yeah, it’s not secure the way it stands right now. I personally use LastPass myself, and have disabled the built-in password manager, but LastPass may be overkill for many more out there.

  • http://ghostlyrics.blogspot.com GhostLyrics

    This is perfectly normal behaviour, since by default also Linux (at least GNOME: gnome-keyring) and OS X (keychain access) do assume that if you’re logged into the session, you are indeed you and should be able to see your passwords without further authentication. This is true for Google Chrome on both systems as well as Safari on OS X. The reason that it’s different with say Firefox and Opera is that they use their own password storage option as Google Chrome does on Windows.

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