Saving Passwords / Deleting Saved Passwords in Google Chrome Browser

April 11, 2011 Browser, Chrome

Google Chrome can save your usernames and passwords for different websites. The browser can then automatically complete the sign-in fields for you when you next visit these websites.

These passwords are stored in the same system that contains your saved passwords from other browsers. On a Mac, Google Chrome uses the Keychain Access to store your login information.

Choose whether you want to save passwords

  1. Click the wrench icon tools menu on the browser toolbar.
  2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on Chrome OS).
  3. Click the Personal Stuff tab.
  4. Adjust your password settings in the “Passwords” section:
    • Select “Offer to save passwords” if you want Google Chrome to prompt you to save your password every time you sign in to a new website.
    • Otherwise, select “Never save passwords” if you don’t want Google Chrome to ever save your passwords.

Delete saved passwords

  1. [advt]Click the wrench icon tools menu on the browser toolbar.
  2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on Chrome OS).
  3. Click the Personal Stuff tab.
  4. Click Manage saved passwords to see a list of all the usernames and passwords that have been saved.
    • Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS users: In the Passwords dialog that appears, use your mouse to hover over the site whose password you’d like to remove and click the x that appears on the right.
    • Mac users: You can remove your passwords in the Keychain Access dialog that appears.

You can also use the Clear Browsing Data dialog to remove all password records saved during a specific time period.

Change password settings for specific sites

If you choose to let Google Chrome save website passwords, you’ll see a prompt every time you sign in to a new website. If you clickNever for this site in the prompt, your password for the site is not saved and the site is added to a list of password exceptions.

You can edit this list of exceptions:

  1. Click the wrench icon tools menu on the browser toolbar.
  2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on Chrome OS).
  3. Click the Personal Stuff tab.
  4. Click Manage saved passwords.
  5. In the Passwords dialog that appears, scroll down to the “Exceptions” section at the bottom.
  6. To remove a site from this list, select it and click the x that appears the end of the row.

Now revisit the website and you should see the prompt to save your password information again, if you’ve allowed Google Chrome to show the prompt.[source]

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