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Google Chrome and master passwords

Posted May 22, 2010 8:37 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Google Chrome and master passwords by jwarnica
Parent article: Google Chrome and master passwords

A browser "master lock" is optional. If you don't trust the browser, don't store passwords with it.

If I don't want to install a different password (and copy/paste passwords, which may expose them on the clipboard), what should I do?

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Posted May 22, 2010 21:52 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

option 1
remember your passwords yourself and type them

option 2
have an application, device remember your passwords but type them, don't copy-n-paste them

option 3
get a browser plugin that generates a password based on the website and what you type so that you don't have to remember a different password per website, but each website gets a different password