Microsoft working on new password tool for Chrome and Edge

[Jamie McKane]

Microsoft working on new password tool for Chrome and Edge

Microsoft is developing a new feature for the open-source Chromium web browsing engine which will let users view text as they type it into a password field.

A new commit made by Microsoft for the Chromium engine shows that the tool could be toggled on or off by a dedicated hotkey.

 

[matt0720]

If you're on a page where it asks for username and password, right click the box of password and then click on the inspect button.. Where it says type"password" change the word password to text, and then you'll see the letters instead of astrix. And if a password was already typed in, it will also become normal letters. So this idea isn't actually new?

 

[mercurial]

If you're on a page where it asks for username and password, right click the box of password and then click on the inspect button.. Where it says type"password" change the word password to text, and then you'll see the letters instead of astrix. And if a password was already typed in, it will also become normal letters. So this idea isn't actually new?

100%. I don't get it. It's actually pathetic that such a massive issue is driven by CSS and not built into the browsing engine.

 

[Swa]

How is this revolutionary when it can be done with an extension?