How To Keep Your Google Chrome Passwords Safe

How To Keep Your Google Chrome Passwords Safe

• Make sure your Chrome browser is up to date. If it’s not, update it before proceeding to the next step.


• Go to chrome://flags and find ‘Disable Password Manager Reauthentication’. Turn it off, i.e. Disable it. Restart Google Chrome.

With that, we’re one step closer to prevent unauthorized access to Google Chrome saved passwords.

Google Chrome uses your Windows account password to protect the saved passwords in the web browser. So, set up Windows account password, if you haven’t. If your Windows account already, skip this step.

Setup Windows Account Password

For Windows 8

To setup Windows account password, press Windows Key + C to open up charms menu. Then follow the path, Settings -> Change PC settings.

Scroll down to Users -> Create a password and Create your password. It’s the same password you’d be needing to reveal the passwords behind the asterisks in Chrome.

For Windows 7

Please follow this path to create a Windows account password in Windows 7.

Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety -> User Accounts -> Create a password for your account.

Moving on to the third step

Test Whether The Passwords Stored In Chrome Are Safe Or Not

Go to chrome://settings/passwords

Try to see one of the many saved passwords using the Show button next to the asterisks(saved password). If everything went well, you’d be prompted for your Windows Account password before you could actually see the saved password in plain text.

That’s how you can keep your Chrome passwords safe from unauthorized access. Got questions? Shoot it right now.