I have been receiving requests from a quite a number of people now, to write a post regarding the steps involved to make your beloved browsers like Chrome, IE, and Firefox to remember your passwords for like everytime you log in.
It's pretty simple. Not to worry.
First lemme get it straight with what an ideal password should be like.
The password you're going to use must not be more than nine figures in length.
Wait, how further are you going to go after nine? :D That would be tiresome. It should have these: a mixture of uppercase, lowercase, symbols, punctuations and you should not go for something that can be very easily made out like common set of words, real life names,etc.
All of these can already be seen in encrypted websites such as banking sites, social networks, mail, etc. All of those discussed above give rise to a strong password that would be difficult to crack.
How many number of passwords can the mind afford to remember? Not more than two or three. It becomes very hard to recall passwords for every website that you tend to use everyday. An option would be that you could save all those in a text file or save it in your smartphones in a note or something and when you visit the site again you can just copy paste the login credentials. But that wouldn't be a good idea; That would be keeping all of your eggs in one basket. Instead,web browsers can be made to remember passwords, just so when you visit that particular webpage your browser will immediately fill in the login details. Lets see how we can accomplish that. Shall we?
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You must have seen a small window opening when you have just entered the login details for a secure website offering you to save the credentials. We will deal with that in Chrome, Firefox and Internet explorer.
GOOGLE CHROME:
In this browser, when you log into a particular website a popup message can be seen at the beginning of the browser. Login to any account in any of these websites and you will see a message that says “Do you want chrome to save the password”.
Click on "Save Password" and it will save both your username and passwords. When you come across the page again, you wont have to type in your login credentials. Chrome will do that for you.
If you don’t see the password saved and don’t get this option for any websites then this is how you activate the "remember password" feature in chrome.
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| Settings in Google chrome |
Press the drop down menu and click settings like illustrated above in the image. Keep scrolling down and press "Show advanced settings". In the end, you'll see "passwords and forms". All you gotta do is check both the boxes as shown below.
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| Passwords and forms |
If "never for this site" is clicked for this site then Google chrome will never offer to remember your passwords.
Get rid of this problem by the following. Click the drop down again and click on settings. Then click on "show advanced settings" and in "passwords and forms" press "manage saved passwords". You'll see a number of websites that are never offered to save their passwords. You just have to remove all the websites from there. You'll come across this window.
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| never saved |
Now heading over to the world's next favourite browser.
FIREFOX:
In this web browser, when you attempt to login, you'll come face to face with a message like this down here.
Even if you've ignored this message the key icon can always be clicked on to get it back. Like Chrome, pressing on "remember password" will have firefox save your credentials. On the other hand, clicking on "never remember password for this site" will act against you if you choose on having your passwords saved. So unless you dont want it to save your passwords, stay away from that button.
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| Remember password in firefox |
Click on the dropdown menu now, go straight away to options and then click options. You'll get to see a lot of options in there. Not to worry, just click on the security bar and then inside the passwords field check the box against "remember passwords for sites" which will have Firefox save all the credentials and when you visit that site again, you wouldnt have to type in credentials again.
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| firefox options |
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| remember passwords in firefox |
Now heading over to Microsoft's own answer to the browser-sphere, the Internet Explorer!
INTERNET EXPLORER:
Now this weird guy is a little different from the two other browsers.
IE offers you to save your passwords in a popup that's at the bottom of the page. "would you like to save your password for this website" is what appears in the popup below.
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| Remember passwords popup in facebook |
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| Internet options in IE |
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| internet options autocomplete settings |
Now move on and click the content tab, and under "autocomplete" press "settings" and in there check all the boxes.
If you have selected “not for this site” then there might be no other means to revert your selection. If you change your mind later and wish to save passwords in IE then the only way you would have is to delete all the previously saved passwords and and browser history.
Hope this article has helped you clear your doubts.
Thanks a lot for reading!
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