Chrome auto-fill saved passwords is very slow

I have been a Firefox user for more than 10 years; all my passwords are saved by Firefox password manager and protected with a master password. Now I want to move to Google Chrome (ubuntu 16.04), so I removed the master password in Firefox, and imported all data from Firefox into Google Chrome. Everything is OK.

But now under Chrome, if I want to log into any page, I have to wait 15 seconds until Chrome autofills the credential fields. This happens on all sites which have saved passwords, even new passwords saved using Google Chrome!

What's wrong with Chrome? I have no such problem with Firefox on the same computer.

Sam

Posted 2016-06-08T14:50:14.517

Reputation: 261

You could be a affected by a bug if it doesn't work after creating new profile. Another user has reported similar issue but wierd I have none

– pun – 2016-06-21T16:31:33.423

Thakns :) They said Google Chrome for Linux uses gnome-keyring to store passwords, and gnome-keyring is very slow !! They really should develop their own password manager !!! – Sam – 2016-06-21T17:54:17.207

Nahhh they are planning to move passwords to db used by chrome if i read correctly. – pun – 2016-06-21T17:56:52.613

Here is another thread about the same

– pun – 2016-06-21T17:59:51.060

Do you have errors in this chrome://sync-internals/ section ? – pun – 2016-06-23T15:29:59.150

I have much the same problem with Chrome and Chromium on Ubuntu -- several versions over several years. This seems to result from poor scaling behavior of the interface with gnome-keyring. I have 800+ passwords and 1300+ bookmarks. Very disappointing that this hasn't been fixed for so long! It helps if you remove ~/.local/share/keyrings/*, log out, then back in and let the system regen its data from the Google server. Eventually, it settles down, but the password retrieval time can be 10 seconds or more if you go to a new login web page. Chrome on Windows, FF on Ubuntu are fine. – Martin Ewing – 2016-08-05T00:48:51.887

I really can't use chrome with problem ! I'm using firefox now and won't plan to use Chrome anymore :( – Sam – 2016-08-15T11:37:38.233

Answers

My suggestion would be to drop the browser based password manager and go with a 3rd party password manager like Lastpass.

Some options

Lastpass
1Password
KeePass
Avast AV has one too

Personally, I have been using Lastpass for over 6 years, never had an issue, and it works beautifully on Android, Windows, Mac and Linux OS, and ok on iOS.

Craig Lambie

Posted 2016-06-08T14:50:14.517

Reputation: 132

This link might help you

I strongly recommend you to use Google Chrome. I have tried to retrieve passwords from chrome and firefox. Firefox doesn't save passwords securely and anyone with slight knowledge can get them master passwords won't help. But with Chrome it is way harder so, Chrome is a more secure browser.

bogd740

Posted 2016-06-08T14:50:14.517

Reputation: 1

Thank you for the advice, but with hindsight I'm not going to move to Chrome because if done it'll be very difficult to change to another browser : Chrome won't easly let me export my personal data like Firefox do ! – Sam – 2018-03-30T18:52:35.820

that is the point – bogd740 – 2018-04-04T00:23:04.723

This worked for me. After weeks of agonizing over whether to reset my Chrome settings, I finally bit the bullet. Within 1 minute it was all fixed, my passwords were loading within a fraction of a second.

To reset your Chrome settings, click on the three dots (ellipsis) in the top right of the browser and select "Settings". At the bottom of the page select "Advanced" then at the bottom of the (expanded) page under " Reset and clean up", select "Restore settings to their original defaults". Click the blue "Reset settings" button. All fixed in under a minute.

Andy Galloway

Posted 2016-06-08T14:50:14.517

Reputation: 1