Carl

> > Also: have you read this? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=661188 The backup logic was disabled at some point > > no, i saw now, they had taken it off and then put...

> * Password Manager But is it encrypted or not? > the others do not know what they are. Most surely related to the functionality to follow prices and make...

> > But is it encrypted or not? > > the password [yes](https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/password_manager/core/browser/login_database_posix.cc;) https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/os_crypt/os_crypt_posix.cc;drc=5539ecff898c79b0771340051d62bf81649e448d;bpv=1;bpt=1;l=74?q=EncryptString16&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc ``` // This currently "obfuscates" by encrypting with hard-coded password. // We need to improve this...

> really anomalous, but there was no safer method? Asking the user to enter a master password...to encrypt all the other passwords, would be safer. And it would still need...

@uazo this is an old patch of mine that I never finished up; interested? The idea is to add basic auth support for HTTPS proxies

@chromer030 that is not an option, it transfers passwords in cleartext.

There is already a patch that prevents this, `ungoogled-chromium: Disable Google host detection`.

@uazo then I suggest to remove more replacements, not just those you mentioned. They are almost all good candidates for removal (field trial, referral ids, rlz, cursor position etc). I...

> ### Can the bug be reproduced with corresponding Chromium version? > No With the same Chromium version this does not happen?

> if I may have my say, I believe that the browser should never automatically open an application (that is, it must work as if it were in incognito mode)....