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Google Chrome is a great browser for sure, though I still see bugs there. Some of them are really annoying: my Chrome (at my work computer) does not offer to remember HTTPS authentication data, and I have to enter it manually each time I go to the secured resource for the first time after Chrome start - it simply does not offer to remember it. Sorry, I can't remember my credentials, don't ask why. :D But! The Chrome at my home computer successfully remembers these credentials after offering to remember them. I checked Chrome preferences (the according option is always set on [though it always offers to store form authentication data at simple "HTTP sites"]), I tried to clear even all passwords - Chrome still asks me to enter both username and password for that HTTPS site after I restart the browser... I don't know what I have do... Can I really force it to remember HTTPS credentials?

Thanks in advance.

UPD: My Chrome version is 6.0.472.63

Lyubomyr Shaydariv
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Here's how. (At least it worked on a HTTPS site I tried just then - ifttt.com) - it is indeed the autocomplete=on thing, but iirc I tried that extension but it didn't change anything. Instead, use this lighter solution.

Just save a bookmarklet, with this javascript code as the url data:

javascript:(function(){var ca,cea,cs,df,dfe,i,j,x,y;function n(i,what){return i+" "+what+((i==1)?"":"s")}ca=cea=cs=0;df=document.forms;for(i=0;i<df.length;++i){x=df[i];dfe=x.elements;if(x.onsubmit){x.onsubmit="";++cs;}if(x.attributes["autocomplete"]){x.attributes["autocomplete"].value="on";++ca;}for(j=0;j<dfe.length;++j){y=dfe[j];if(y.attributes["autocomplete"]){y.attributes["autocomplete"].value="on";++cea;}}}alert("Removed autocomplete=off from "+n(ca,"form")+" and from "+n(cea,"form element")+", and removed onsubmit from "+n(cs,"form")+". After you type your password and submit the form, the browser will offer to remember your password.")})();

Then go to the login page, click on the bookmarklet and click ok, log in, then after a few seconds the save password box will pop up. Hope that helps somebody or OP.

  • Thank you so much :) I was really annoyed that Safari on iOS can store my OWA password but not Chrome. – eckes Dec 10 '13 at 03:29
  • This is such valuable information, but unfortunately it does not answer the question, which is to save HTTP Auth data, not HTML form data to which autocomplete applies. I am upvoting it anyway, but I feel... dirty – Douglas Held Apr 07 '17 at 17:03
  • It doesn't work for me ((( – Alex Belke Jan 19 '18 at 15:06
  • Doesn't work (anymore). But in my case it may be related to the "untrusted" self-signed server certificate (cert lifetime 10y) – leo Mar 29 '21 at 09:09
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Some sites also send an attribute along with the form that prevents your browser from remembering user inputs.

The Chrome extension autocomplete = on will override that and let you remember passwords for any site.

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If both Chrome installs are the same version, and yet are behaving differently, then there must me something messing it up at profile level.

I suggest creating a new profile from scratch, of copying your profile from the installation that does remember https credentials to the one that does not.

Creating a new profile is as easy as deleting (or renaming the folder) that contains the current one.

For guidelines on where Chrome stores its profiles, check http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory

PD: profile = user data directory

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