How to backup and restore saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser?

Google Chrome offers you to save your web passwords when you try to login into a website. Once you saved the password, you don’t need to remember them for further use. When you reaccess the same webpage, the Chrome browser fills the login details automatically. Google Chrome also offers a built-in option to export saved passwords on your computer. This means that you don’t need to use any third-party software or extension to backup Chrome passwords.

In this post, we will guide you on to backup saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser. There are at least two ways through which you can store or save passwords in your computer or notebook. These are the following:-

1. Backup Google Chrome passwords via the User icon
2. Backup and restore Chrome passwords using the Experiments
3. Backup and restore Chrome passwords using a third-party tool.

1. How to backup Google Chrome passwords using the User icon?

There are two ways to export saved passwords from the Google Chrome browser: using the user icon and Chrome flags.

To dump the stored password in Chrome browser, do the following steps:-

1. Open the Chrome browser, click on the user icon on the toolbar, and then click the Passwords icon.

Alternatively, open the Chrome browser and type chrome://settings/passwords in the address bar, and hit Enter from the keyboard.

1. In the Saved Passwords section, you can view the website, username, and password stored on your Chrome browser.

Quick Tips: By clicking on the Eyes icon next to the Password, you can see the stored password.

1. Select the location of the file where you want to save, write a file name, and click the Save button.

All the saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser will be saved in a file. Google Chrome uses Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File format to save exported passwords. You can view the saved file using the Microsoft Excel program.

In this method, there is no option to import the saved password in the Google Chrome browser. If you want both the options import and export in Google chrome browse, use the alternate method.

2. How to backup and restore Chrome passwords using the Experiments?

This is the alternate inbuilt option in the Chrome browser to backup and restore, or import and export saved passwords. To backup and restore Chrome passwords, perform the following steps:-

1. Open Chrome browser and browse for Chrome://flags to open Experiments window.

Quick Tips: If you have exported the passwords from a Chrome browser on your PC, you can use the Import option to import the saved password in a new PC or the same PC. This action will restore all the saved passwords in your Chrome browser.

1. Chrome will prompt you to enter the current Windows login password.

1. Select the location of the file where you want to save, write a file name, and click the Save button.

All the saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser will be saved in a file. Google Chrome uses Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File format to save exported passwords. You can view the saved file using the Microsoft Excel program.

Using this method, you can import passwords in the Chrome browser and export the saved password in the Google Chrome browser.

3. How to backup and restore Chrome passwords using a third-party tool?

If you don’t prefer to use the inbuilt option of Chrome browser to import and export files, you can use a third-party tool to accomplish this task. ChromePass is a freeware tool that lets you backup and restores Chrome passwords in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, & 10.

To back up and restore Chrome passwords using the ChromePass tool, use the following steps:-

1. Download the free portable tool ChromePass.

2. Extract the downloaded file using 7-zip or WinRAR.

Note: The password of the zip file is chpass9126*.

1. Double-click ChromePass to open it.

2. You can view all the stored passwords in the Google Chrome browser, including the password strength.