TECH TIP: CHROME ENABLE-FEATURES PASSWORDIMPORT

I love discovering useful features of common software.  At all my previous workplaces, Internet Explorer 11, warts and all, was the default browser.  Or at least on the Windows 7 computers that I upgraded to Windows 10.  As a result, the need to transfer Chrome passwords from old machines to new machines was simply not there.  On a recent project, the need arose and I learned from another technician the -enable-features option.

On the old computer, go into Chrome Settings and export the passwords.  The user would have to supply the Windows password.  The file is saved as Chrome Password.csv in the place you select (flash drive, personal folder etc), guard it with your life!

On the new computer, make a copy of an existing Chrome shortcut then add to the Target field -enable-features=PasswordImport , as shown below.  Launch the Chrome copy, go to Settings then Password, you now have the option to import the list of passwords. Have user visit a few sites that require password to verify the import worked then delete the .csv file.  Also delete the copy of Chrome shortcut, just to keep things tidy.