Chrome’s Safety check can now find ‘Weak Passwords’ Also

Chrome on desktop and Android has Safety check built-in that alerts about compromised passwords, bad extensions, and harmful software when you run it from Settings. Chrome already supports detecting weak passwords saved to the browser, Google now expanding that to Safety check as well.

For the uninitiated, here is how you can find weak passwords using Chrome

Launch Chrome:browser
visit chrome://flags page
Search for “weakness Password check”
Click on drop down and select Enabled
Relaunch browser
Visit Chrome://settings/passwords,
Click on Check passwords and check the results.

Including to compromised passwords, Chrome displays the weak passwords which you can change by clicking the “change password” buttons for each affected one.

Chrome Safety check gets Weak Passwords Scanning option

Launch Chrome browser
Enable these two flags: “Safety check for weak passwords” and Passwords weakness check”
Restart the browser

Enabling the first flag makes Chrome to display weak passwords in Safety check after running .

The feature is already working Chrome Canary 89 when the above flag is enabled

Click on three-dot icon and select Settings
Click on Safety check
Click on “check now”
When weak passwords are found, Safety check informs about that and shows a “Review” button. Clicking the Review button takes to chrome://settings/passwords/check where you can have a look and change the affected passwords.