Browsers like Chrome and Mozilla Firefox let you store usernames and passwords for immediately accessing websites. But, is it safe to store your login credentials? Read on to find out.
These days people have a lot of online accounts, which makes it difficult to memorize all the passwords. Chrome gives you the convenience of saving your login details to Google servers to make it hassle-free for managing passwords. However, Chrome is not alone. Other browsers like Mozilla Firefox also let you store usernames and passwords for immediately accessing websites. But, have you ever wondered if saving your passwords to Chrome, Google, or any other browser is safe or dangerous? Let’s talk about it. Well, Google says Chrome encrypts your username and password with a „secret key“ known only to your device. And this happens before the data is stored on Google servers, which means that no one, including Google, can access your username or password. If you visit the password manager section of your Google account, you will learn that even you cannot access your id or passwords. Yes, you read it, right. The search giant will first ask you to enter the password of your Gmail account, after which you will be able to check the details. While Google never sends an alert when you or, for instance, someone else try to access your passwords, the good thing is you don’t get access to all the passwords at once. So, for example, if you want to check your Facebook username and password, then you will click on it and enter your Gmail password.
