Sunday, March 29, 2020

Vivaldi Browser - How to get saved passwords

For those who don't know Vivaldi, it is a browser based on Chromium. I personally use it instead of Chrome because I love its interface much more customizable than Chrome as well as its attention to privacy and security.

Vivaldi logo

Although I use to let the browser save my credentials for accessing web sites, sometimes I need to get them back. Here comes the problem: how to find saved passwords in Vivaldi?

1) Type: chrome://settings/search#password into address bar

I'm not kidding. I know, we are in Vivaldi and not in Chrome, but trust me: type exactly chrome://settings/search#password into address bar. Vivaldi then will open a window similar to this one:



You may notice two things:

  1. The window presents a vertical scroll bar and it shows the very end of the Settings page.
  2. Vivaldi converts the chrome://settings/search#password URL into vivaldi://settings/search#password, but if you type this latter URL another page will be shown.

2) Scroll to the very beginning of the Settings page



At the very beginning of the Settings page there is a Passwords section. Now press on the right arrow corresponding to that section and... voilĂ ! Saved Passwords appear.


Now you are almost done. Just click on the eye icon. 

Vivaldi will prompt you for your OS user credentials. Upon right completion of this check, Vivaldi will then unlock the password that corresponds to the eye icon you pressed before and you'll see it in clear.