ChromePass Changelog

What's new in ChromePass 1.58

Dec 12, 2022
  • Fixed to display the password if it's not encrypted (Like in the portable version of Brave).

New in ChromePass 1.57 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • When decrypting Chrome passwords from external drive, you can now specify the SHA1 hash of the login password instead of the actual password.

New in ChromePass 1.57 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • When decrypting Chrome passwords from external drive, you can now specify the SHA1 hash of the login password instead of the actual password.

New in ChromePass 1.56 (Dec 27, 2021)

  • Fixed the external drive feature to work properly if you sign in with Microsoft account.
  • Be aware that in order to recover passwords created while you signed in with Microsoft account, you have to provide the random DPAPI password generated for your Microsoft account instead of the actual login password. You can find this DPAPI password with the MadPassExt tool.

New in ChromePass 1.55 (Apr 11, 2021)

  • Added new file type to save the passwords list: 'Firefox import/export csv file'. When you save the passwords in this file type, you can use the import feature of Firefox to import the saved passwords into Firefox: Import login data from a file
  • In order to save the passwords as 'Firefox import/export csv file', simply select the items you want to save (or press Ctrl+A to select all passwords), press Ctrl+S (Save Selected Items), choose 'Firefox import/export csv file' from the file type combo-box, type the filename to save and then click the 'Save' button to save the file.

New in ChromePass 1.52 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • Fixed ChromePass to decrypt the new password encryption on Opera Web browser (The 'Local State' file is stored inside the profile instead of the parent folder)

New in ChromePass 1.51 (Mar 22, 2020)

  • Fixed bug: ChromePass displayed an error message when trying to save as Chrome CSV File.

New in ChromePass 1.50 (Feb 16, 2020)

  • Added support for the new password encryption of Chromium / Chrome Web browsers, starting from version 80.
  • Be aware that the 'Local State' file, located inside the 'User Data' folder (Parent of your Chrome profile folder), is needed for decrypting the passwords of Chrome 80 or later.
  • In most cases, ChromePass will find your 'Local State' file automatically, but if it fails to find this file from some reason, you can manually type the 'Local State' filename in the 'Advanced Options' window.

New in ChromePass 1.47 (Dec 25, 2019)

  • Added new file format to export the passwords: Chrome CSV File. It's the same file format that Chrome Web browser exports the passwords from chrome://settings/passwords

New in ChromePass 1.46 (Jan 28, 2018)

  • Fixed bug: When using the 'Advanced external drive settings' in the 'Advanced Options' window, ChromePass displayed an error message.
  • ChromePass now saves the Advanced external drive settings in the .cfg file.

New in ChromePass 1.45 (Jan 28, 2018)

  • Added 'Run As Administrator' option (Ctrl+F11), which allows you to easily run ChromePass as administrator on Windows Vista/7/8/2008/10. You may need to run ChromePass as administrator when reading passwords from external drive.
  • ChromePass now displays an error message if it cannot access the files on external drive.

New in ChromePass 1.42 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • ChromePass now automatically displays the passwords of Vivaldi Web browser

New in ChromePass 1.41 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Added support for exporting to XML file of Password Exporter Firefox extension, so you can import the passwords of Chrome into Firefox using the this Firefox extension.

New in ChromePass 1.40 (Jul 26, 2016)

  • Passwords decryption of external drive / profile now works on all versions of Windows, starting from Windows XP and up to Windows 10 ! ('Advanced Options' window - F9)
  • Added advanced external drive settings which allows you to choose the desired Windows Protect folder and the 'User Data' folder of Chrome ('Advanced Options' window - F9).

New in ChromePass 1.37 (Apr 25, 2016)

  • Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option

New in ChromePass 1.36 (Feb 7, 2016)

  • Fixed bug: ChromePass failed to export to KeePass csv file.

New in ChromePass 1.35 (Jan 4, 2016)

  • ChromePass now also displays the passwords of Opera and Yandex Web browsers (Both of them are based on Chrome...)
  • Added 'Password File' column.

New in ChromePass 1.32 (May 19, 2015)

  • Fixed ChromePass to display the correct 'Created Time' on the latest versions of Chrome.

New in ChromePass 1.31 (Feb 12, 2015)

  • Fixed ChromePass to display properly user name/password with non-English characters.

New in ChromePass 1.30 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Added option to specify a profile folder ('Use the following profile folder:' check-box)

New in ChromePass 1.27 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Added support for Chromium.

New in ChromePass 1.26 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Removed the command-line options that export the passwords to a file from the official version. A version of this tool with full command-line support will be posted on separated Web page.

New in ChromePass 1.25 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • ChromePass now automatically reads the passwords from all profiles of Chrome Web browser.
  • Fixed issue: The properties dialog-box and other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.

New in ChromePass 1.22 (May 5, 2012)

  • Fixed bug: ChromePass failed to read the password file if the file path contained non-English characters

New in ChromePass 1.21 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Added support for Chrome Canary.

New in ChromePass 1.20 (May 12, 2011)

  • Fixed ChromePass to work properly when the password file is locked by Chrome.

New in ChromePass 1.16 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • Added an option to export the passwords into KeePass csv file (In 'Save Selected Items'). You can use the created csv file to easily import your Web site passwords into KeePass password manager.
  • Fixed issue: removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers.

New in ChromePass 1.15 (Oct 6, 2010)

  • Added 'Password Strength' column, which calculates the strength of the password and displays it as Very Weak, Weak, Medium, Strong, or Very Strong

New in ChromePass 1.10 (Sep 13, 2010)

  • Fixed ChromePass to work with the latest versions of Chrome.

New in ChromePass 1.05 (Nov 18, 2008)

  • Added support for recovering Chrome passwords from external drive. (In Advanced Options)