Chromium doesn’t store passwords locally anymore

Hi all,
chromium started to forget passwords.
When I enter a username/password in the password popup window it seems to accept the data; but in the password manager the site list is empty.
Crhomium verson:
Versione 139.0.7258.66 (Build ufficiale) Arch Linux (a 64 bit)

What can I do?

Chromium will not store password for sites considered unsafe.

Did you - at some point - disable saving passwords chrome://password-manager/settings ?

It seems the latest iterations of Chromium requires you to manually add the password - even given the fact it offers to do so, the credentials are not saved.

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Good to know because it happened to me too. But i use the function so rarely i didn’t bother to test and debug - thought i did something wrong.

I had completely forgotten that I - on another topic - tested if ungoggled-chromium would run on unstable branch.

As I just realised a few minutes ago - when I created above comment - it was using ungoogled-chromium.

My deepest apologies for the confusion - I have to correct myself - Chromium - in the mentioned version 139.0.7258.66 built by upstream Arch Linux - does store passwords correct.

I use chromium as test-bed for the web-assembly application I maintain for a company.

These tests run locally using a developer certificate on https://localhost:1234 - localhost url is considered unsafe, and - no matter the certificate - chromium refuse to save credentials.

In production mode with a third-party certificate - no issues.

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Hi @mirto - unless you have a specific reason for not using a password manager extension, I would strongly suggest you use that rather than rely on a browser password manager. Personally I use Bitwarden & am very impressed with it. Either way, I wish you all the best in finding the solution that works for you. Ruziel :wink:

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KeepasXC is my weapon of choice :slight_smile:

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Thanks.
I’m security concerned about extensions. I don’t want my passwords leave my machine.
Any documentation/recomendation about password manager extensions?

Sorry the Chromium web store

https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/KeepasXC?utm_source=ext_app_menu

says that KeepasXC doesn’t exist

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_GettingStarted#_browser_integration

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