To facilitate safe browsing on the web, Google Chrome can automatically access and complete the passwords that you have saved in your Google account. Soon, Google Chrome will also be able to directly manage and edit your saved passwords.
Right now, while Google Chrome makes it easy to log in to your favorite websites by automatically filling in your login details, and alerting you if any of your passwords have been compromised, the desktop version of Chrome currently doesn’t offer a way to edit passwords Instead, you’re told to “view and manage passwords saved in your Google account.”
According to a recently released code change, Google is starting work on the ability to edit passwords in Chrome for desktop and Chrome OS. Like most of the new features in Google Chrome, the ability to edit passwords will start behind a flag in chrome: // flags.
Edit passwords in desktop settings
Allows editing of passwords in desktop settings.
# edit-passwords-in-desktop-settings
Unfortunately, that’s all we know for now, as no other work has been done beyond adding the flag to hide it. The only other clue we have is that this new flag is currently “expired” with Google Chrome version 88, which means that the function is at least destined to to launch between Chrome 86 and Chrome 88, although this is subject to change.
As we discovered last year, Chrome for Android has developed a similar password editing feature that, despite being seemingly complete, is still behind a different Chrome banner. Google may intend for Chrome’s saved password editing capabilities to start in parallel on desktops, Chrome OS, and Android, assuming they start at all.
Following the example of the Android app, we are currently guessing that the desktop version of Chrome will add pencil icon buttons to the list of saved passwords, allowing quick access to the edit menu.
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