I use chrome as my main browser. It autofills the login stuff for my regular sites. I know how to look at it’s list of saved passwords…except that neither gmail nor google appear on the list of saved passwords. Uh? It knows what the password is, it enters it automatically when I go to gmail, so why isn’t it on the list? Other sites appear as expected, like Straight Dope and AOL, and I can display their passwords fine. But not gmail??
If there is no way to get chrome to cough it up, how do I get gmail to show me the password while logged into gmail?
The reason this comes up is I will be housesitting for a friend and want to be able to access my email from her computer, and it’s been forever since I did my own login to gmail so I really don’t remember what it is.
On Mac OS, I can find additional Internet passwords in my keychain.
Don’t know if Windows has similar.
Just checked for fun, and my Google password is saved on the browser, under myaccount. google. com. So it should be there. Why it isn’t for you, I don’t know.
I had to get a new computer just a few months ago, and was ‘forced’ into Windows11. I am less than competent with it.
My suspicion is that W11 ‘helpfully’ hides some accounts for security? But my various bank logins are on the list, so…what is it with gmail? Mysterious.
Looks like Windows has something called Credential Manager that is similar to Keychain on MacOS. Maybe have a look-see there? It seems to save some web passwords there, too.
Okay, found the Credential Manage,which informs me I have NO web credentials saved.
Thanks for trying though.
I’ve been resisting the idea of going through the ‘forgotten password’ routine in gmail (for fear that having a new one will cause some other program to stop doing its thing) but I guess I’ll have to man up and do that.
That’s what I was going to suggest…try importing passwords from Chrome to another browser, like Edge or Firefox. Perhaps those browsers would be less restrictive about the gmail password.
Also, I just looked in my Chrome saved password list. My gmail password is listed under ‘accounts.google.com’. Of course, to display that password, I had to enter my sign-in credentials that I used to sign in to Windows on my PC.
Yep, Edge signs me right in. But I haven’t found how to view the passwords in Edge yet.
As for sync, one of the programs (probably chrome, but I’m getting confused) told me it wasn’t synch so I click the synch on button, and it claims it is doing whatever in the background, but I rechecked the keys in Chrome maybe ten minutes later, and still no listing for google or gmail.
OTOH, I DID find the notebook where I used to list my passwords, and the chrome password listed there was still good! I must have used that list when I started with this new computer.
In Chrome once the password box is filled in, right click it with your mouse and hit “Inspect”. A new panel will open. You’ll be on some web page code that looks like “<input type=‘password’ …”. Look for “data-initial-value” and there will be the password. If you do not see this, then look at the bottom of your window. There’s a console area. You can type in it. Type the following and hit enter: document.getElementsByName(“Passwd”)[0].value
Wow, they certainly don’t want your basic user to be able to recover lost passwords, do they?
Thank you for typing all that out – it’ll likely be of great help for someone, even though I solved my problem by the utter low-tech method of finding my password notebook.
Today I found a tip that had never occurred to me, and I thought was absolutely brilliant: use an Address Book for your passwords! It makes finding them much easier if you only have to scan through the “G” tab instead of paging through the whole list that was just added to as time went by.
Now if I only had the attention span to move all the passwords (for the sites I still care about) to an address book…
