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Access to Saved Passwords
I'm not sure how you visit passwords.google.com without using a browser ;)
Passwords stored by Edge Chromium are managed at edge://settings/passwords. My experiments seem to show, though, that changes here are not reflected in the Windows Credential Manager. I'll be submitting feedback about this.
Microsoft
Eric_Lawrence wrote:
FWIW, the lack of Windows Credential Manager support is intentional. The challenge with mixing your new Edge browser credentials in the Windows credential manager is that the Windows Credential manager is per-Windows-Login-Account while the Edge Credential manager is per-Browser-Profile. There can be a one-to-many relationship between these accounts and profiles, and things get even messier when you consider the impact of roaming across multiple machines.OK, that makes some sort of sense, I suppose. However, I would really expect the same sort of treatment as I get when using a different browser, e.g. IE. The concept of 'browser profiles' is new to me, and I can't find any documentation about it.
For example, I visit account.live.com and sign in with a different account from usual. I go ahead and change the password for the account, in the hope that I won't have to muck about with passwords when accessing that account in the future. Edge offers to save the password, which I accept. However, Credential Manager retains the old one, so when I next want to use that account in different circumstances, e.g. when using a different browser or an email client, I see a 'wrong password' message. That can't be in the user's best interests.