Chrome's remembered passwords easily shown.

This is news and good news for me .
See , I've forgot half my passwords and user names , and even places I'm a member of.
Sometimes when I run CCleaner it clears the filled in password boxes even though instructed not to .

Just paste

chrome://settings/passwords

Into chromes address box - that's the big one at the top with the star at the end .
Click Enter
Then click on an entry and click show.


Why you shouldn't store your passwords in Google Chrome

Software developer Elliott Kember is upset with Google Chrome.




You see, unlike rivals like Firefox, when you tell your Chrome browser to remember a password it doesn’t give you the option to protect the information with a strong master password.
In fact, Chrome doesn’t let you protect your passwords with a master password at all.
So, anyone who has access to your desktop (perhaps you have walked off to make a cup of tea) could simply visit the URL
chrome://settings/passwords
and find your passwords are just the click of a “Show” button away.




Of course, if you do leave your computer unattended you should always lock it to prevent this sort of problem. But human nature being what it is, it’s hard to see how Google can justify not putting an extra level of protection in place when other browsers have adopted similar techniques.
Kember stumbled across the problem after temporarily switching from Apple’s Safari browser to Chrome, and being surprised to find that he was unable to disable Chrome’s desire to import passwords stored in his usual browser of choice.



It does seem very odd that Google Chrome greys-out the option to import passwords, meaning that the user has no choice about the information being shared with another application – particularly one that isn’t offering the most rudimentary level of protection