Google Chrome may soon require fingerprint authentication to fill passwords

Google Chrome, one of the most popular browsers used by billions worldwide, is often used by users to store information like usernames and passwords for various websites. However, in recent years, threat actors have successfully used info stealer malwares like StealC to steal your saved passwords and login credentials. To prevent this, Google seems to be working on a new feature for the Android version of the app that requires biometric authentication to automatically fill login credentials. According to a recent post on X by Leopeva64, a user often credited with spotting upcoming software features, the Canary version of Chrome for Android now has a flag that makes fingerprint or face authentication necessary before users can fill in a password field.To enable the feature, users will have to install Google Chrome’s Canary build from the Play Store. Once done, launch the app and type “chrome://flags” in the address bar and on the page that appears, find and enable the toggle named “#biometric-auth-identity-check“. Since the functionality is currently available on the Canary version of Chrome for Android, an experimental Chrome build for those who want to try out new features, it might take some time for the option to appear on the stable build.