Google Chrome not populating saved passwords

Recently I have noticed that even though the userid is populated on websites previously saved through Google Chrome, the passwords do not populate.

I have gone into the Browser settings to verify things are set properly, and I believe they are.

I have also verified that my UN’s and PW’s do exist in my google account. (*I can manually access them.)

If I open the Google Browser in a Windows 10 work machine, the passwords populate as expected, and as happened previously, but not on Manjaro.

I do recall on a recent (not the latest) stable update, that KDE Wallet or Gnome Keyring was coming up and bothering me on each launch of the browser to get UN’s and PW’s. It is possible that I tried to fix that and reconfigured something incorrectly somewhere, but I cannot find whatever it is.

Can someone please help me to correct this behavior, or even better, to help me get back to the previous behavior, (which I consider a default experience within the browser) ?

Thanx in advance.

PS. I attempted to use the inxi as preformated text, from the terminal, but it does nto look like it is formatted as seen on the terminal! Not sure why. Sorry!

inxi:

$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host  
    System:    Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
               parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=3d96d0d8-ce6c-403c-bf6a-f35f7bcfd655 rw quiet apparmor=1 
               security=apparmor resume=UUID=e0b067e4-e8a9-493e-a687-61168dcc472f udev.log_priority=3 
               Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.2 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux 
    Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
               v: 2901 date: 05/04/2016 
    Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S serial: <filter> 
               charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
               Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech K800 serial: <filter> charge: 70% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
               status: Discharging 
    Memory:    RAM: total: 15.53 GiB used: 8.38 GiB (54.0%) 
               RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
    CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD FX-9370 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer family: 15 (21) model-id: 2 stepping: N/A 
               microcode: 6000852 L2 cache: 2048 KiB bogomips: 76316 
               Speed: 2309 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2309 2: 1959 3: 3341 4: 3725 5: 3667 6: 3554 7: 3972 8: 2722 
               Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid 
               cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fma4 fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate 
               ibpb ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr nodeid_msr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save 
               nx osvw pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp 
               rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall tbm tce topoext tsc tsc_scale 
               vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xop xsave 
               Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
               Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
               Type: mds status: Not affected 
               Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
               Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
               Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
               Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
               Type: srbds status: Not affected 
               Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
    Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Pitcairn XT [Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon 
               v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6818 
               Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: radeon FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting 
               alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
               Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2") s-diag: 1055mm (41.5") 
               Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70 size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5") diag: 801mm (31.5") 
               Monitor-2: DisplayPort-1 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70 size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5") diag: 801mm (31.5") 
               OpenGL: renderer: AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 2.50.0 5.8.18-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes 
    Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
               bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
               Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: XFX Pine 
               driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aab0 
               Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 5-2:2 chip ID: 046d:082d 
               serial: <filter> 
               Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO 
    Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel 
               port: b000 bus ID: 0a:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
               IF: enp10s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
               IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
               IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
               IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
               IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
               WAN IP: <filter> 
    Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 439.14 GiB (47.1%) 
               SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
               ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Smart Modular Tech. model: SHGS31-1000GS-2 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
               logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0Q00 scheme: GPT 
               Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ATAPI model: iHAS124 W rev: HL05 dev-links: cdrom 
               Features: speed: 125 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
    RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
    Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 911.48 GiB size: 896.17 GiB (98.32%) used: 439.10 GiB (49.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A 
               uuid: 3d96d0d8-ce6c-403c-bf6a-f35f7bcfd655 
               ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 512.0 MiB size: 511.0 MiB (99.80%) used: 280 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
               label: N/A uuid: 493E-3CA7 
               ID-3: /run/timeshift/backup raw size: 911.48 GiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required> 
               fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A uuid: 3d96d0d8-ce6c-403c-bf6a-f35f7bcfd655 
               ID-4: /var/TestRooFolder raw size: N/A size: 8.48 TiB used: 68.11 GiB (0.8%) fs: nfs4 
               remote: 10.0.0.172:/TestRootFolder label: N/A uuid: N/A 
    Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
               ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 19.53 GiB used: 38.2 MiB (0.2%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A 
               uuid: e0b067e4-e8a9-493e-a687-61168dcc472f 
    Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
    USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid 
               interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 046d:c52b 
               Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
               Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Device-1: 5-2:2 info: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: Video,Audio driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 
               rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 046d:082d serial: <filter> 
               Hub: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Hub: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
               Hub: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
               Hub: 9-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
               Hub: 10-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
               Hub: 11-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
               Hub: 12-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
               Hub: 13-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
               Device-1: 13-4:2 info: Corsair Controller for Corsair Link type: <vendor specific> driver: cp210x interfaces: 1 
               rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1b1c:1c00 serial: <filter> 
    Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 41.0 C 
               Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
    Info:      Processes: 346 Uptime: 20h 06m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1476 pacman: 1455 lib: 395 
               flatpak: 12 snap: 9 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.08

Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Did I post it in the proper place? I know we used to have a newb section for such a question, but I think I saw something that said to post into this area. If it needs to go elsewhere, please let me know.

Thanx!

I had the same issue. I use XFCE.
To fix it I have deleted ~/.config/google-chrome/ and resync again.
If you want to use several profiles run chrome with:
/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --profile-directory=Zeddock
So all sync stuff will be in the Zeddock profile in directory:
~/.config/google-chrome/Zeddock

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Thank you! It is Fixed!

It Works in Manjaro KDE Plasma too.