“ChromePass” – A simple password recovery
tool for “Chrome” Browser.
After Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox password
recovery tools, here’s another password recovery tool for
one of the world’s fast growing web browser – Chrome.
ChromePass is a free password recovery tool for
Windows, which enables you to view the usernames and
passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser.
Chrome is a simple yet a powerful freeware tool to view
saved passwords in Google Chrome. For each password
entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL,
Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User
Name, Password, and Created Time.
You can select one or more items and then save them
into text/html/xml file or copy them to the clipboard.
There is no installation process or additional DLL files
required to use ChromePass. In order to start using
ChromePass, simply run the executable file
“ChromePass.exe.” After running it, the main window will
display all passwords that are currently stored in your
Google Chrome browser. You can run this tool without
administrator rights.
There are some steps that should be followed in order to
read ChromePass passwords from external drive.
Starting from version 1.05, you can read the passwords
stored by Chrome Web browser from an external profile
in your current operating system or from another
external drive (For instance: from a dead system that
cannot boot anymore).
To use this feature, you must know the last logged-on
password used for this profile, because the passwords
are encrypted with the SHA hash of the log-on password,
and without that hash, the passwords cannot be
decrypted. You can also use this feature from the UI, by
selecting the ‘Advanced Options’ in the File menu, or
from command-line, by using /external parameter. The
user profile path should be something like “C:
\Documents and Settings\admin” in Windows XP/2003 or
“C:\users\myuser” in Windows Vista/2008.
ChromePass is available in many languages. In order to
translate ChromePass to other language, follow the
instructions below:
1. Run ChromePass with /savelangfile parameter:
ChromePass.exe /savelangfile
A file named ChromePass_lng.ini will be created
in the folder of ChromePass utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in
any other text editor.
3. Translate all string entries to the desired
language. Optionally, you can also add your name
and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName
and TranslatorURL values) If you add this
information, it’ll be used in the ‘About’ window.
4. After you finish the translation, Run ChromePass,
and all translated strings will be loaded from the
language file.
If you want to run ChromePass without the translation,
simply rename the language file, or move it to another
folder.
After you finish the translation, Run ChromePass, and all
translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run ChromePass without the translation,
simply rename the language file, or move it to another
folder.
This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to
freely distribute this utility via USB, CD-ROM, Internet, or
in any other way, as long as you don’t charge anything
for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all
files in the distribution package, without any
modification.
The software is provided “AS IS” without any warranty,
either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to,
the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for
a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any
special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages due
to loss of data or any other reason.
All in all, ChromePass can come in handy to many users
out there, not only because it’s freeware, but also
thanks to the fact that it’s distributed as a very light
package. Support for multiple browsers however would
definitely attract more users, while a comprehensive help
manual to explain every single feature could make
beginners feel a bit safer.
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