Google Chrome currently automatically fills the username and password fields with a single tap. (Image Source: Google)
Google Chrome, one of the most popular browsers used by billions worldwide, is often used by users to store information like usernames and passwords for various websites.
However, in recent years, threat actors have successfully used info stealer malwares like StealC to steal your saved passwords and login credentials. To prevent this, Google seems to be working on a new feature for the Android version of the app that requires biometric authentication to automatically fill login credentials.
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Google Chrome currently automatically fills the username and password fields with a single tap. (Image Source: Google)
Google Chrome, one of the most popular browsers used by billions worldwide, is often used by users to store information like usernames and passwords for various websites.
However, in recent years, threat actors have successfully used info stealer malwares like StealC to steal your saved passwords and login credentials. To prevent this, Google seems to be working on a new feature for the Android version of the app that requires biometric authentication to automatically fill login credentials.
The feature is currently limited to Chrome Canary. (Express Photo)
To enable the feature, users will have to install Google Chrome’s Canary build from the Play Store. Once done, launch the app and type “chrome://flags” in the address bar and on the page that appears, find and enable the toggle named “#biometric-auth-identity-check“.
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Since the functionality is currently available on the Canary version of Chrome for Android, an experimental Chrome build for those who want to try out new features, it might take some time for the option to appear on the stable build.
To give you a quick recap, Google had tested a similar feature for Chrome a few years ago, but for some reason did not make it available for everyone while browsers like Microsoft Edge already had this feature a while back.
Last month, Google added a bunch of new features to Chrome to desktop that includes Google Lens integration, a Tab compare feature and AI powered history search.
