It’s that easy and with a single click, you can change an insecure or leaked password in Edge

Microsoft continues to work on improvements that should reach the next general version of its browser. With Edge 94 they release a functionality that makes it easy to change a password that could have been violated and appear in the powerful “Password Manager” used by the browser.

Microsoft is the same in this way as Edge with Chrome, since Google’s browser already offers from version 92 the possibility of change a compromised password with the push of a button and without the user having to manually search for the affected website.

Change with a single click

Microsoft Edge Password Manager is the password management tool that is built into Edge. A function that offers access to all the passwords that we are using and stored in Edge and that It already allowed to know if there are threatened passwords.

The difference is that as of Edge in version 94, will have support for the well-known URL standard so that if a credential is threatened, the user can change with the push of a button.

Within the “Preferences” of Edge it will be enough to access “Profiles” and in the “Passwords” section, find where it says “Leaked passwords” (if there are any). If so, if we click on that banner we will see a list with all the keys at risk and a new button will appear in the status columns with the text “Change” that directs the user directly to the password change page of a website specific.

From now on, Edge will automatically fill in the password and even suggest one thanks to the key generator that it mounts.

The feature is designed to make it easy to change affected passwords and coming to Edge from version 94 for all users, although it can already be tested in Edge Canary in version 95.

Via | Techdows

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It’s that easy and with a single click, you can change an insecure or leaked password in Edge

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