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Autofill in Microsoft Edge
Autofill of forms is a feature familiar to most Microsoft Edge customers (or for that matter, users of most modern browsers). In the next version of Microsoft Edge too, you can expect the browser to remember your passwords for all your favorite websites and help you fill in your address and credit card details with one-click whenever you come across these forms online. In this post, we will cover some of these features that you’ve come to depend on and use in your everyday life.
View and Delete passwords within Microsoft Edge itself
Earlier, one needed to go to Windows Settings > Credentials Manager to view and delete saved passwords. Now this functionality is available within Microsoft Edge browser itself. You can View (after authenticating) and Delete your saved passwords in Settings > Profiles > Passwords.
Autofill suggestions made more usable
These changes have been made to improve the form suggestions experience.
Full preview of address data with field highlighting
Filling an address form can sometimes involve effort even with autofill, especially when you have multiple similar addresses saved. Microsoft Edge lets you preview your autofill data for all suggestions within the same dropdown itself, making it easier to choose the right address to fill.
To help you quickly select the autofill suggestion, the value corresponding to the field currently in focus is highlighted in the suggestions.
Ease of access for credentials
In login forms, Microsoft Edge now offers the ability to choose a credential pair both from the username field as well as the password field.
Browser data import for a seamless transition
A possible roadblock to try out a new browser is the unavailability of data that’s important to you, such as your favorites, passwords and other autofill data. Microsoft Edge smoothly overcomes this hurdle by making your passwords, payment info and addresses available right from the first launch.
Upon browser setup, you may choose to keep your data from another browser. If so, you will find all your form data under Settings > Profile and you can manage your data as needed. If you have credit cards that are linked to your Microsoft account, you will not be able to view them yet in the autofill interface. This will be available soon.
There is also an option to import all your autofill data on-demand, again through Settings > Profile. Remember that your existing data set will be replaced by the new data you import.
Sync autofill data across your devices
Work on syncing data across different devices is currently underway – expect these changes to reflect in the upcoming builds.
Control over your autofill data
As a Microsoft Edge user, you have full control on the autofill feature as well as your autofill data. It is important to us that you can easily view, delete and manage your personal data at any point of time. You can also enable/disable the whole feature for passwords, payment info and addresses, respectively.
Looking ahead
This is just the beginning. We know that your time is super valuable. And every second that we spare you from typing out your details each time you shop online, or every bit of mind space we free up from remembering a complex password, counts. Which is why, in the new Microsoft Edge it is important that you get a reliable autofill experience that works intuitively whenever you come across a form on the web.
And to get there, we need your help. You can help us by sharing examples of areas where autofill in Microsoft Edge can do better.
We look forward to your inputs!
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Elliot Kirk one thing I have really missed since using Edge, is the ability to remove items from the Autofill options. When developing, you often end up typing all sorts of different data into names, addresses, emails, etc. With IE you used to be able to clear that data up easily enough by just deleting it from the list when the browser displayed it. Please bring back a way to remove items from these lists easily.
mduregon +1 for me. It was one of the reasons I still preferred to use IE in the modern world. Sites like SFDC tend to cache autofill info and while you want to remove one item you don't want all your info deleted. If this can come back it would be AMAZING!!!
I'm not quite sure how many others feel this way about auto filling sensitive information but I prefer to rely on my own backing store for sensitive data rather than any browser's built in method. I used to use LastPass and now I use Bitwarden to manage such data. It would be fantastic if Edge could allow you to pick another source for auto fill data natively instead of what is currently the norm which is adding a context menu option for Bitwarden or LastPass.
Elliot Kirk Appreciate the post I honestly thought this was part of Chromium which to my understanding is what was leveraged as a base... Obviously I don't understand something but good to see you guys add that feature.
Chrome does have secondary password encryption where it saves my passwords but when installing fresh or on a new computer it guides me into filling in my secondary password (so only locally saved) so I know that the cloud version is at least stored with that encryption.
I see others have mentioned it i would like to see this feature.
Elliot Kirk For the password management feature, it's good to see this more integrated into the browser. However, one of the biggest usability issues with Credential Manager today is the lack of any kind of search / sort / filter, coupled with the lack of friendly display names for sites. When you accumulate a significant number of credentials it can be very difficult to find passwords for specific sites.
In Edge, please consider adding a simple search or filter function to the user interface to address this issue.
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Edit: well, color me silly. This functionality already exists in Edge Insider (not a Chrome user here, so I have no background familiarity to draw on). I haven't imported any passwords into Edge Insider as I am a LastPass user, but I just installed the browser on my wife's PC and discovered that what I describe above basically already exists.
So yeah, carry on!
Thanks for listening.
Elliot Kirk Worked fine most places but could not get it to work at walgreens.com on the photos page. I would select my ID and password but nothing would get filled in. And, I couldn't type in what I wanted - autofill kept essentially gettting in the way. I had to go back to the regular Microsoft Edge to get logged int.
If possible, Elliot Kirk, could you or someone on the team compose a post explaining the security measures that protect the password data? I did considerable research into LastPass before storing my data there, and I'm loathe to change unless I have similar information. How is the sensitive data stored? Is it encrypted at rest? What sort of salting info or other details can be shared about that encryption? Is it only available after a clean authentication to Windows? Is it available for use after Windows login, or only after secondary authentication in Edge? Is it available for viewing/editing after Windows login, or only after secondary authentication in Edge? What does the Microsoft Cyber Security Team think about the capability?
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David Gibson thanks for the detailed questions and clearly calling out your concerns. Given we are talking about sensitive information here, we believe that security around how this data is stored and accessed is very important. In short, you can view the saved password for a website only upon additional authentication. We will follow up with a detailed post that will address all aspects of security and encryption regarding how your sensitive data is handled in Edge.
I like to use Autofill for address information but I use LastPass for my sensitive data.
Would love to see Windows Hello come to Edge(ium) like on Classic Edge.
I was going to make the same suggestion. Thanks. I love be able to use Windows Hello on certain websites. I know the feature isn't on all PC's but it should be an option (not the default) for Surface and other compatible devices.
Elliot Kirk all the features are perfect and are absolutely required for a good experience.
I'd like to suggest if we can add an option to suggest us new passwords upon signing up for new websites, it'd be a handy experience...🙂Elliot Kirk you ought to mention a chromium flag
edge://flags/#fill-on-account-select
More info https://textslashplain.com/2017/12/28/taking-off-your-nametag/
