The web browsers have within them the functionality of password management so as to remember the login credentials and quickly enter the websites that require secure access. A web browser like Google Chrome protects the passwords stored behind a Google account while Firefox synchronizes them online through an account access to the Firefox Sync online services.
When protected by a single master password, you can rest assured that the passwords stored on your browser are secure, and this is especially true if the computer is not used by other people.
It will be noticed that some sites refuse to save passwords and remember them for subsequent logins. Especially on banking sites or sites like Paypal where there is movement of money, let's see how to force the browser to remember and save passwords to enter websites with a registered account .
First of all you need to check that the browser option for automatic password filling is active .
In Google Chrome, this is found immediately by pressing the button with three dots at the top right, going to Settings and then, under Autofill, click on Password and make sure that the two switches are active.
In Firefox, the same option is found by pressing the button with three lines at the top right, opening the Options and going to the Privacy and Security section.
A trick allows you to force the browser to remember your password even on sites where this feature is not enabled. There is nothing to download and no security risk, it only takes one or two mouse clicks to get around this limitation and force the browser to remember the password on sites that do not allow it .
This trick becomes useful if you use web browsers like Firefox and Chrome that have the internal manager to save passwords in a protected way.
On different browsers, which do not have a centralized password management system, this trick is not recommended because, as seen in another post, the passwords saved by the browsers behind the dots are easily discovered.
For different reasons, if you use programs such as Lastpass to store passwords for accessing websites or as Keepass to manage logins on websites, the trick loses all meaning.
Technically, some sites do not allow you to save the password because they have an " autocomplete " attribute set in their code set to " off " in the forms to be filled out. This attribute disables the automatic completion of fields, including passwords. The Paypal site is an example of this behavior and in fact the browser never asks to remember the login and password which must always be rewritten.
To force Chrome, Firefox and Edge or other browsers to remember passwords, just a simple Javascript code to be launched on the page that enables autocompletion .
Press CTRL-B to bring up the bookmarks bar, right click, create a new bookmark or bookmark, give it a name (like "Save Password" and as address copy and paste this code in full:
javascript: (function () {var% 20ac, c, f, fa, fe, fea, x, y, z; ac = "autocomplete"; c = 0; f = document.forms; for (x = 0; xOn Firefox and Chrome, when you go to a site that does not remember your password, press the button on the bookmarks bar (it is called bookmarklet ) so as to enable the auto-completion of the forms. After entering the name and password, the question should appear whether or not to remember the password for the next visit. On some browsers, from the test done, you have to repeat the procedure twice, the first time the login user name is stored while the second time the password is saved.
On Google Chrome you can also install the Always Autocomplete extension which enables the browser to save passwords on all sites automatically.
Both the code and the extension work on some sites but not all of them, it depends on their protection. For example, Paypal can be forced to remember the password on Internet Explorer 9 and on Firefox but not on Chrome.
