Google confirmed an issue that caused 15 million Chrome users on Windows to temporarily lose access to their stored passwords. The issue persisted for 18 hours.While the issue occurred, users could not browse or add their saved passwords. It impacted roughly 2% of Chrome 127 users on Windows, that is about 15 million devices. Overall, Chrome boasts a user base exceeding 3 billion.
To temporarily mitigate the issue, the company offered to run the browser with the --enable-features=SkipUndecryptablePasswords command line option.
Google rolled out a working fix for the bug on July 25, which required the user to restart the browser.
The launch of Google Chrome 127 occurred the day before, with the update resolving 22 security flaws. It improves the Incognito mode by enabling HTTPS-First by default. Google is also starts killing Manifest V2 in flavor of Manifest V3, with the latter being not friendly to ad blockers. Finally, there are some changes to Safe Browsing. First of all, the browser will now ask a password for encrypted archives. If you specify it, Chrome will send the contents to Google to check the files for safety. Also, Enhanced protection now includes extra telemetry that checks some pages against a block list..
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