Google is making a lot of improvements to its password check feature on Android and desktop. Recently we covered Chrome for Android allows us to check for compromised passwords and lets you view, edit, and copy them. Chromium team now working on adding another feature to the Password check function on desktop.
Chrome has received Password leak protection sometime back and alerts you when passwords saved to Chrome are leaked in a data breach. Other than that, you can manually visit the chrome://settings/passwords page and utilize the check passwords option to know if any of your passwords are breached or not.
Chromium team today has added password weakness checking to chrome://settings/passwords/check page behind a flag.
Enable Passwords weakness checking in Chrome browser
To test this feature
- Launch latest Chrome Canary
- Visit chrome://flags page
- Search for “Passwords weakness check”
- Select “Enabled” from the dropdown and restart the browser
Use Chrome to check for weak Passwords
After that,
- head to chrome://settings/passwords page
- Click on “check passwords”.
Then Chrome not only checks for compromised passwords but weakness in your saved passwords as well and may warn to change them if any found.
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