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Why does Chrome forget stored passwords?

Asked by manuel_alarcon (299points) November 9th, 2017

Hi, I know its an odd question, and Í know sometime I knew this; but it’s just a question circling around my head. From time to time, the Chrome browser (or maybe any browser for that matter) forgets the stored passwords from some sites. Anybody know why?

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elbanditoroso's avatar

How often do you go to your settings/history area on Chrome?

If you go to History and select Clear Browsing Data, there is a list of checkboxes of different things that Chrome will clean, if you tell it to. If the Stored Passwords checkbox is checked, then it will delete yours.

Also, if you are using utilities such as BleachBit or CCleaner, and the settings are picked, it will do the same thing,

Pandora's avatar

I don’t know but try Last Pass. My daughter is a computer tech and she installed it on my computer. She also has it on hers. You can also put it on your phone. It has a double security check. If you don’t want to go through that all the time, you can set it to trust your computer for a month at a time or however long you like so you don’t have to enter the pass code to access it. Once you enter your password, you then go to your phone and enter a generated passcode from your phone. I love it. You can store all kinds of info on there.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Because I hate Chrome.

You know, I store all my passwords in a spread sheet….

manuel_alarcon's avatar

@Dutchess_III I once saw a “passwords notebook” in a street market! it was a little red book with spaces designed for url, user pass and comments. It was very cool indeed. but I guess the spread sheet (or any other document for that matter) will do. :)

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