Google Chrome Saved Passwords – How to Crack or Retreive

Google Chrome is the latest entry into the browser warfare. It is known for its raw speed of web browsing and some of the security features. Although it has made a significant dent in the market share of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, my own view is that the name of Google behind it is the main reason behind it and not the functionality or features of Google Chrome.

How to Crack or Retrieve saved Google Chrome Passwords

Whatever be the case, the subject of this article is to let you know about a useful utility, which allows you to crack or recover the saved passwords in Google Chrome browser easily. This is a freeware tool from NirSoft, with the name ChromePass.

It automatically detect the default chrome profile path for the current user and displays all the stored login credentials in clear text after decrypting them. It also shows all the blacklisted website entries for which user has prompted Chrome to not to remember the passwords.

For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time.

You can select one or more items and then save them into text/html/xml file or copy them to the clipboard. Another useful feature of this tool is the Export option which can be used to save the login secrets to the local file in standard HTML format. This will be very useful in following cases.

1. To take backup of the login secrets for the stored websites
2. To transfer the secrets from one system to another.
3. To store the website passwords at more secured centralized location
4. To recover the passwords in case Chrome becomes not accessible or non functional.

ChromePass doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLL files. In order to start using ChromePass, simply run the executable file – ChromePass.exe After running it, the main window will display all passwords that are currently stored in your Google Chrome browser.

Tip: If you are like me who want to have your cake and eat it too, then RoboForm is an ideal solution for you. RoboForm is world’s largest used Password manager, which allows you to totally forget about botheration of remembering passwords and also handles their security very well.

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