Whenever you login into the website in Google Chrome, you need to provide the User credentials. If you have multiple websites, it is a bit difficult to remember all these passwords and enter the credentials, every time you log in.
Google Chrome provides an option to save the passwords; and it automatically logs in to the websites, using the saved passwords. This will save your time, and if you forget your password; you can get the password details from Chrome.
In this article, I am going to explain how to manage passwords in Google Chrome.
I have verified this on Google Chrome Version 69.0.xxxx.xx (Official Build) (64-bit)
Step 1. Open Google Chrome. At the top right, click on the Chrome menu to “Customize and control Google Chrome”. It will show the menu to select the options.
Step 2. From the menu, click on the Settings menu item to open the Settings page. The settings page enables us to customize and control Google Chrome.
OR to open the Settings page, you can type “chrome://settings/” in the Address box or “Search Google or type a URL” box.
Step 3. Click on the “Sign in” button, to sign in to Sync and Personalize Chrome across your devices. If you do not want to Sync these changes to your Google Account; you can skip this step.
Step 4. From the Settings page, click on Passwords to manage the passwords.
OR enter “chrome://settings/passwords” in Chrome’s Address or URL box.
Enable to prompt to save the passwords
Step 5. Before you start managing the passwords, you must enable the option to prompt to save the passwords by clicking on the “Offer to save passwords” option. Once this is enabled, whenever you log in to the site by providing user credentials; Chrome will prompt the “Save password?” dialog to save the passwords. Click on the Save button to save the password.
Note that, if you do not want to save the password or never ask to prompt to save the password for the current website; click on the Never button.
Auto sign-in
Step 6. Enable the “Auto Sign-in” option to enable Chrome to automatically sign in to the website with the saved credentials.
Manage saved passwords – Chrome
Step 7. Once the password is saved; you can manage the passwords from Chrome itself or if you have already enabled the option to Sync the settings to your Google Account; you can manage the passwords from Google Account.
Step 8. You can see the list of passwords saved, under the “Saved Passwords” section. Each entry has Website, Username, and Password details. To see the password, what you have entered; click on “Show Password” OR Eye Symbol which is displayed next to each entry.
Note that, when you click on the Never button when Chrome prompts you to save the password; the website entries will be displayed under the “Never Saved” section. This enables Chrome not to prompt to save the passwords for the listed websites under this section.
Step 9. Google Chrome doesn’t allow you to see the password directly; you must have to provide your System credentials. This is multi-factor authentication, provides more security. If you are using Windows; it displays a “Windows Security” dialog to prompt you to enter your Windows credentials. You can enter the password and click on the OK button; to allow Chrome to show the saved passwords:
------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Security ------------------------------------------------------------ Google Chrome Google Chrome is trying to show passwords. Type your Windows password to allow this. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sahida [Password ] Use another account ------------------------------------------------------------ [OK] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------
Do you want to save the stored passwords to a file?
Step 10. Chrome allows exporting the saved passwords. Click on “More actions” (the vertical three dots image) next to the “Saved Password” section; and select “Export passwords…“. From the “Export passwords” dialog; click on the “Export passwords…” button.
Export passwords Your passwords will be visible to anyone who can see the exported file. [Cancel] [Export passwords...]
Step 11. Chrome allows to Remove the saved passwords too by clicking on “More actions” and then selecting the “Remove” link.
And also, you can remove the entries which are displayed under the “Never Saved” section by clicking on the “X” link next to the entry. Next time, when you try to log in to the site (the entry you deleted); Chrome will prompt you to save the passwords.
These are the options Chrome provides to manage the passwords of the sites that you have saved.
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🙂 Sahida