{"id":360355,"date":"2020-07-17T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=360355"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:56:58","slug":"google-chrome-will-let-you-edit-your-saved-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/360355-google-chrome-will-let-you-edit-your-saved-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome will let you edit your saved passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is working to provide users with the ability to edit their saved passwords within the company’s Chrome desktop browser, 9to5Google<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

Chrome has offered the ability to save your passwords within the browser for many years, but the editing feature has not been available until recently.<\/p>\n

This functionality was recently introduced on Chrome for Android but still remains in testing behind a “chrome:\/\/flags” tag, as is standard protocol for new features.<\/p>\n

A newly posted code change<\/strong><\/a> shows that Google is now working on this feature for both the desktop and Chrome OS versions of Google Chrome.<\/p>\n

When it is first tested, it will also be placed behind the “chrome:\/\/flags” tag.<\/p>\n

9to5Google speculates that the feature on Desktop and Chrome OS will follow the Android version’s leady and display a pencil icon when users access their list of saved passwords.<\/p>\n

Users would then be able to click on this icon to edit their saved passwords.<\/p>\n

Chrome dominates the browser market<\/h3>\n

Google Chrome continues to dominate the desktop browser market, according to NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a>, with 70.19% of desktop users using this browser.<\/p>\n

The popular browser’s market share has grown substantially over the course of 2020, as it began the year with a market share of 66.93%.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Edge is now Chrome’s nearest competitor after overtaking<\/strong><\/a> Firefox in April 2020.<\/p>\n

Edge now boasts 8.07% market share, while 7.58% of users choose to use Firefox as their primary browser.<\/p>\n

The rise of Microsoft Edge is due in large part to the marketing efforts of Microsoft, which has aggressively touted the Chromium-based browser’s value on platforms such as the Windows Start Menu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has also been accused<\/strong><\/a> of forcing the browser onto users after the company started automatically installing the new Edge browser and importing user data without their permission in an automatic update in early June.<\/p>\n

Now read: 130 accounts targeted in major Twitter hack<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google is working on providing users with the ability edit their saved passwords within the company’s Chrome browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,1137,30102,4930,57728],"class_list":["post-360355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-mozilla-firefox","tag-password-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360375,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360355\/revisions\/360375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}