
In this article you’ll find a comprehensive guide on how to extract Google Chrome passwords from local computers and Google Account. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter.Thanks to its presence on Windows and Mac computers, iPhones and Android smartphones (on which it enjoys the default browser status), Google Chrome is the world’s most popular Web browser. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. Try it out and let me in the comments section below. Conclusionīoth of these extensions are a dead simple solution for Google Chrome, Chromium and Mozilla Firefox that removes copy and paste blocking. Type the following in search bar:Īnd set value to false by double clicking on it. If you see a page with the warning message, This might void your warranty!, click the button labeled “ I’ll be careful, I promise!“, to continue. In Firefox a type about:config in the Location Bar: The following hack enables the password paste. You need to use about:config which is a feature of Mozilla applications which lists application settings (known as preferences) that are read from the profile files prefs.js and user.js, and from application defaults. Update: You can now use this addon on Firefox that stops websites from blocking copy and paste actions for password fields and other input fields.


Firefox enable pasting password on sites that block it Security through obscurity is no security at all. The main reason many users try less secure and short password is stupid limitation added by developers. Do not force us to type a random 50 character long password. These webmasters or site developers need to come up with user-friendly ways. It worked on all of the sites that block pasting the password. I use tools like 1Password to remember all kinds of things for me, and it’s actually more error prone for me to type out all the characters than it is for me to copy from 1Password and paste into a text box. If I paste an incorrect email address, that’s my own damn fault. It annoys me to no end when a web application prevents me from being able to paste content into an input field, or copy it out. I hope this tiny and open source extension save some time and frustration: Now you can copy the password from your password manager (such as gpass, keeppass and more) and paste it on any site.You may need edit the auto-generated pattern, finally click “ Save“ Next add a site to the blacklist is to click on the extension icon.

