
Sir Tim Berners-Lee who is tagged as inventor of the web has termed the response to be very disappointing and he has also said that this flaw is a way to catch on all the sensitive logins and passwords of your big sisters.Ĭhrome is among the three most used browsers in the world and has millions using it along with Internet Explorer from Microsoft and the Firefox browser. Justin Schuh who is the head of the Chrome Developer team said that they have been aware of the flaw and he also said that there was no plan to bring any changes to the system. The text which is so revealed can be transferred to any outside source via copying it or by taking a screenshot.
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An obscured lists of passwords will then be visible for different sites and clicking besides such password will show plain text to these passwords. Viewing of the passwords can be easily done by clicking the icon of settings and then choosing the tab ‘’show advanced settings’’ and then moving on to the tab ‘’Manage and save passwords’’ in the section that says ‘’Password and Forms’’. It is through the settings panel in the browser that all the password can be viewed without any encryption.īesides the password related to personal accounts, sensitive login details of companies would also be compromised in case the user who worked on Chrome leaves the computer unattended and with an active screen. If you want to keep to the current version of Chrome, you can disable automatic Chrome updates.A very serious flaw has been pointed out in Google Chrome browser that allows any user who has access to a particular computer to see every password stored for social media, email and for any other website.

Google doesn’t allow users to easily downgrade Chrome to get earlier Chrome versions. Note: After Chrome stable version 76, you may not be able to see the Google password import or export flags in chrome://flags page. If you see a Password export feature, click the drop-down icon to select Enabled to enable password export feature in Chrome.

You can follow the steps below to back up all your Chrome saved password into a CSV file.
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