Passwords that are written in Google's Chrome Web browser, as in any other browser on PC, are always hidden behind asterisks or dots. The password coverage system is used to prevent passersby from reading or catching a glimpse of the password as it is entered.
This is useful if you work in an office or in a place frequented by other people, otherwise there is really no reason to cover passwords and they can be left visible also because it is the same Google Chrome has to facilitate reading.
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The clear fact is that if someone uses another person's pc, there is no way to prevent him from doing anything he wants, including being able to extract all the passwords saved on the browser.
As already seen in a past article, a simple portable tool is enough to see the login and password used on Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer .
Indeed, in another article, we have seen many different ways to find out the passwords stored on the browser behind dots or asterisks
If it is true that the passwords of each browser are shown in plain text, only Chrome, however, gives this possibility directly in the settings .
Not everyone knows that passwords stored on Google Chrome, without hypocrisy but with a certain imprudence, are always visible in the clear from the settings of the browser itself.
Open the Settings menu, expand the advanced settings and scroll down the list to Passwords and forms to find the Manage saved passwords link.
The same window can be opened by writing on the address bar chrome: // settings / passwords
The window is the list of sites for which a password has been saved and just click on it to see the Show button and see that password in clear text.
If this is useful if you forget your password, it really becomes an easy way for anyone who can use our computer to find out the login and password of all web accounts .
There are three ways to avoid this problem if there are multiple people using that computer
- Protect your browser with a password to access internet browsing
- Avoid that Chrome automatically saves the passwords used by unchecking the option " Ask to save the passwords I enter on the web " in the advanced settings.
In this guide all the information on saving password on CHrome
- Use your computer with a secure and private Windows account.
If this is not a problem and the computer is used only by us and not by other people, Show password is a useful extension to be able to read and write passwords in clear text, without dots or asterisks.
Passwords stored on the browser appear protected with dots except if you click in the field where you write the password which becomes readable and can also be copied.
This can be useful to verify that the entered password is really the correct one or to make it easier to enter difficult passwords.
