Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating it was “by design.”
Microsoft backpedals: Edge to stop loading passwords into memory
Submitted 11 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Backpedals? That is a vibecoding-level mistake.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Why does Bitwarden do it then?
terabyterex@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
i want to be clear whats going on here. every other password manager loads the password you are rewuestion (they have to)… edge, on startup, loaded every single password in memory to be accessed. every… single… one.
bitwarden does not do that.