This important feature is years overdue

Google’s Chrome browser is becoming more secure. In the future, the program will warn of insecure passwords when a new account is set up on a website. Chrome will soon also check older accounts for possible risks if users change the password here. However, the function could become superfluous in the future.

Google Chrome warns of insecure passwords

It’s almost amazing that it took until 2022, but it seems Google is only now planning to add an important feature to its Chrome browser. A Password strength indicator is in progress, as has now been announced. When users set up a new account on websites, the browser warns them if the chosen password seems insecure.

Google has not only new, but also old passwords in view. If these are replaced with a new one, the indicator for the password strength reports, if necessary. However, the browser can only provide information on the strength of the selected password and does not take any further action beyond that. Users are therefore still free to choose any password they like.

What the function will look like in detail has not yet been clarified at this point in time. So far it is only clear that Google is working on a password indicator for the Chrome browser (source: About Chromebooks). It is not known when the function will appear in the final version.

A strong password is important, as our video shows:

New Chrome feature is almost too late

Google may have come up with the new feature left a little too much time. In the future, it could even become superfluous, because Google, Apple and Microsoft want to say goodbye to the principle of passwords entirely. Instead, a method is to be used that was jointly developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

With the FIDO method, a pair of keys is generated on devices that are attached to a fingerprint or to another biometric factors is coupled. A registration on the mobile phone is then sufficient to be able to access accounts on the computer.