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Google Chrome is one of the most popular freeware web browsers. Google Chrome was developed by Google. The Latest version of Google Chrome is 19.0.1068.0 (Dev) released on March 15^th 2012. The Google Chrome occupies 36.6% usage share of web browsers.

Chrome Pass

Chrome Pass is a small freeware tool developed NirSoft. It is used to extract the saved passwords in Google Chrome web browser. It doesn’t require any installation process or .DLL files.

Usage of Chrome Pass

Just simply click chromepass.exe. It will display all the passwords currently stored in Google Chrome web browser

For each entry it displays the following information is displayed

Origin URL: field shows the website URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Action URL: Action URLs are basically HTTP GET requests and may contain variable names starting with $ as values in the query

Username: Username stored in the Google Chrome Web Browser.

Password: Password stored in the Google Chrome Web Browser

Created Time: It displays the time at which chrome stored the username and password

You can also try this software by clicking the link below if you also want to extract the usernames and passwords currently stored in Google Chrome web browser.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html

History of Chrome Pass Versions:

The Chrome Pass first release is Version 1.00. Second release Version 1.05 with added support for recovering Chrome Passwords from external drive like that it released version 1.10, version 1.15 with password strength column (Which calculates the strength of the password and displays very weak, weak, Medium, Strong and Very Strong). In the version 1.16 added an option to export the passwords into .csv file. Now presently the latest version is version 1.21 with added support for Chrome Canar

Chrome Pass is available in all the popularly used languages in the world. You can also translate the Chrome Pass to other languages. There are certain command line operations to save the list of passwords into required file formats. They are listed in the following table.

/stext <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into a tab-delimited text file.
/scomma <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into a comma-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename>	Save the list of passwords into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename>	Save the list of passwords to XML file.
/skeepass <Filename>	Save the list of passwords to KeePass csv file.
/external <User Profile Path> <Last Log-On Password>	Load the Chrome passwords from external drive/profile. For example: chromepass.exe /external “C:Documents and Settingsadmin” “MyPassword

Managing the Passwords in Google Chrome

1. Click the wrench icon

2. Select Options

3. Click the Personal Stuff Tab

4. Then click Manage Saved Passwords

 

Google Chrome provides a facility to manage the passwords stored. But it does not provide any facility to extract the passwords from the web browser to the files. Hence Chrome Pass is one of the best tools used to extract the currently stored passwords in the Google Chrome Web Browser.

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