Is there a way that we can access our saved passwords if we aren't using the browser. For example, in Chrome you can go to passwords.google.com to access saved passwords and I would love something similar in the new Edge.

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.

Navigation to privileged URLs is blocked because they're commonly used as a stepping stone in multi-stage security vulnerabilities. e.g. a HTTPS page directs the user to a privileged page (e.g. edge:// something) and induces it to undertake a dangerous action.You can visit edge://edge-urls/ to see a list of the most common such URLs. Some of these, you'll notice, will do very deliberately bad things (e.g. blow away the browser and all of its content).As you've noticed, some "Application Protocol Handlers" (e.g. ms-settings) can be launched; these run outside of the browser. (It turns out that these are a significant source of attacks [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2011/07/13/understanding-protocols/] too, but attempts to retire the system have been fruitless).

It is deliberate that the browser blocks navigation to edge:// protocol links for security reasons.This forum software probably SHOULD NOT try to convert such links into hyperlinks (making them clickable).

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.

At present, no, Edge doesn't have a viewer for your profile data (including passwords) that exists solely on a website. We've heard this feature request in the past and I understand why it's desirable. (Personally, I've been pushing for the ability to view my favorites on a web page, for similar reasons).

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fitojb
Copper Contributor
Jun 08, 2019
I would love to have a way to consult my saved Edge passwords from a web site. I recently lost access to my Windows partition and had some saved passwords there, so if there is some way to retrieve them (they were synchronized to my Microsoft account), I’d love to know.
Eric_Lawrence
Microsoft
Apr 30, 2019
At present, no, Edge doesn't have a viewer for your profile data (including passwords) that exists solely on a website. We've heard this feature request in the past and I understand why it's desirable. (Personally, I've been pushing for the ability to view my favorites on a web page, for similar reasons).
Noel Burgess
Iron Contributor
Apr 30, 2019
CristinaC

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.
- vivekkumarbatra
  Microsoft
  Dec 15, 2021
  Noel Burgess - To view saved passwords you would have to use the same profile across all installations of Edge on all devices. The main use case, for me at least, is to look at the passwords saved in other profiles, like my spouse's or a personal profile, when I have to access a web site in a browser window with creds not saved in mine. On desktop, Edge provides you the option to have multiple profiles but that is not the case with Mobile versions. So, the option to view passwords on a web site gives me flexibility. I am rooting for the time when everything becomes password less and authenticate using the Auth app.
- CristinaC
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 17, 2019
  Noel Burgess Sorry, to clarify I meant if we aren't using the edge browser. I can go to any computer or phone and access my google passwords, I was hoping for something similar for my Edge passwords.
  - JeremyTBradshaw
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 26, 2019
    CristinaC I thought it was pretty obvious from the start;), but just poking fun with that, no harsh-eties aimed at Noel Burgess . But in all seriousness, I relied (in Chrome) on the capability to go to my Google account website to retrieve previously-randomly-generated passwords from another device/browser all the time.
    
    Most of the time, this need arises due to using Edge on my Android and EdgeDev on my computers (3 computers). Since Edge doesn't sync passwords, the transition from Chrome has been bumpy in this regard. A similar offering in Microsoft accounts / EdgeDev would be really nice to have, I assume it will come with the introduction of passwords being included in syncing.
    
    However, just to be sure they have it on their radar I wanted to put this message here.
    
    Google's password manager has been keeping me happy vs 3rd party offerings like 1Password, Dashlane, etc.. I'm crossing fingers the EdgeDev will copy this functionality like-for-like.
- Eric_Lawrence
  Microsoft
  Apr 30, 2019
  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.
  - Noel Burgess
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 30, 2019
    
    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.

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