- Chrome’s password administrator now allows for automated password change
- The new feature helps reduce friction, Google says
- Passwords remain the first approval method
Users can now change compromised passwords directly in their Chrome browser, with just a few clicks. This is the promise made in a new Google blog that discusses the comprehensive changes that the company brings to user approval and identity verification.
Most browsers are already supplied with a (rudimentary form of) password administrator that allows users to generate strong passwords, store their credentials and automatically fill them for speed and convenience.
Now Google’s Chrome Devs, Ashima Arora, Chirag Desai and Eiji Kitamura said the company is based on this foundation to “fix compromised passwords in a single click”.
Change of passwords
“Automated password change makes it easier for users to respond when their credentials are at risk,” the blog reads. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during login, the Google Password Manager asks the user with an option to automatically resolve it. On supported sites, Chrome can generate a strong replacement and update the password to the user automatically.”
Passwords are still the most common and popular form of approval. They are also the least safe form as people tend to create weak, easy to guess passwords, tend to share them with friends, family and colleagues or store them in uncertain places that hackers can easily access.
Society has gathered behind alternatives such as Passkeyys, Biometric Approval or Physical Security Keys. Google also works on all these (and then some), but emphasized that passwords were “still the world’s most common method of approval,” which suggests that it will not give up practice soon.
The full blog is a rather interesting reading discussing a unified login experience, improved identity verification and improved session security. You can read it in more detail at this link.
