How to Import and Export Passwords in Google Chrome? — SuperTechman

The ability to save your username and passwords in Google Chrome is a brilliant time saver and a convenient feature to save you the hassle of remembering all of your account details to the websites you need to access. However, what if you want to have a backup of your chrome passwords. There could be many situations you need to backup the passwords:

• You are moving from one laptop to another.
• Changing, reinstalling or updating the operating system.
• Wanted to modify the new passwords in bulk and re-upload into Chrome.
• If you found that your passwords are compromised or you want to update them on bulk

How to Export Passwords from Chrome

It’s just a simple process of activating the export button in Chrome and after that you can then export your saved passwords in a CSV file to local computer.

Important!!! Before continuing, we must make one thing very clear. The export function of web browsers saves all our passwords in plain text , without encryption. Browsers export a plain text file (CSV) to us, inside which are the URLs of the websites, the user and the password. Any user who has access to this file will be able to access all of our passwords.

Follow the steps given below:

• Go to “chrome://settings” URL on the address bar.
• Click on the “Manage passwords” option under “Autofill” section.

Enable Password Import Flag

You can directly modify the passwords in the CSV file and import back to Chrome. However, by default Chrome disabled this password import option and you need to enable it from flags section.

• First close all other browser sessions as you need to relaunch the browser.
• Go to “chrome://flags” and search for “password import” flag.
• You will see a “Password import” flag showing with “Default” option indicating it is disabled on the browser (or you may see “Disabled”).
• Choose “Enabled” from the dropdown and relaunch the browser.

Importing Passwords Back to Chrome

If you do not see the import function -

• Go to “chrome://flags” and search for “password import” flag.
• You will see a “Password import” flag showing with “Default” option indicating it is disabled on the browser (or you may see “Disabled”).
• Choose “Enabled” from the dropdown and relaunch the browser.

Originally published at https://supertechman.com.au on November 26, 2020.