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Alex313031 / thorium

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.
https://thorium.rocks/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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All saved passwords are suddenly gone... #487

Closed mezhgano closed 1 month ago

mezhgano commented 9 months ago

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Problem Just browsing as usual, nothing special, not performing any changes to OS or browser, and for some moment realize that Thorium loose access to any known website and all passwords are just disappear from password manager...

Rebooting PC and restarting Thorium did nothing.

I have 2 profiles and second profile also affected. I'm using local Thorium account with "Allow Thorium sign-in" option turned off, so i signed to Google account, but not syncing it with Thorium.

Found "Login Data" files inside User Data folder for both profiles, they sized around 100 kb each, pretty sure it contains all my passwords but somehow Thorium just stop recognized them.

There is something i can do to restore access to my passwords and how to prevent such pain in future?

quadbyte commented 9 months ago

You might want to use a proper password manager, BitWarden is great, open source and runs as an extension. Saving passwords in the browser is not a great idea security-wise.

mezhgano commented 9 months ago

You might want to use a proper password manager, BitWarden is great, open source and runs as an extension. Saving passwords in the browser is not a great idea security-wise.

Thanks for reply, yeah, of course i am using KeePassDX stand-alone app, i have all my passwords, they doesn't lost completely :) But now i forced to manually signing in a lot of websites... The point is not how to store passwords, rather: why this is happens with Chrome-based browsers?

If it happens again i will switch to extension, like you say, thanks for remind for such option.

CodingWithAnxiety commented 9 months ago

KeePassXC has an extension; Isn't KeePassDX an android PM though? Correct me if wrong.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/keepassxc-browser/oboonakemofpalcgghocfoadofidjkkk?pli=1

Can connect KeePassXC to chrome and chromium browsers such as thorium however.