# How to change your Gmail password

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 17, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-your-gmail-password/693348 "2014-07-17T10:25:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-your-gmail-password/693348/1 "2014-07-17T10:25:13Z")

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For reasons irrelevant to this thread I changed two Gmail passwords. One worked OK, but for the other I had to type my new password every time, along with viewing a red “Your password was changed 32 hours ago” message. This was OK at first – typing in the new password helps me remember it – but I eventually longed for the “good old days” when the Chrome password manager would autofill the password for me.

This doesn’t seem difficult. Surely Chrome knows it’s at a password page that’s not in its Never list. I could even see that its password manager had the new password … but it wasn’t autofilling. I did get it to work (by Googling to find a Google site where Googlers console each other), but with a procedure so odd I thought I’d document it here, and see if any gurus have explanation to offer.

On the Gmail login page, right-click and Select _View Page Info_. Disable Javascript when the Page Info menu appears. _That_ is the way to get the “Save this Password?” prompt to appear. After entering and saving the Password, remember to click Page Info and re-enable Javascript next time you log in.

It seems ironic that, as web services become “friendlier” and “friendlier”, gurus need to be consulted to accomplish simple things. :smack: