Is it safe to store passwords in Google Chrome?

Question

Google Chrome

At the same time, access to the computer with a password, i.e. the user has a password. And you need to enter it when you try to view the password for a site in the Google Chrome settings.
Is it safe? What if there is a virus on the computer that can view the user's browser folder? Is it possible to limit the rights to the file(s) with passwords only for Google Chrome?

Answer 1

Absolutely safe things in the world do not exist.

Answer 2

I opened.
It is enough to copy the profile to your computer.
;)

Answer 3

Google encrypts its passwords with mdapi, you can read about it, but the main thing from this is that they can only be decrypted on the computer where they were saved, if someone steals the password file and tries to decrypt it, he will receive only logins. But nothing prevents you from making a virus (which is already done) to decrypt the passwords on your machine and send them to a hacker. In general, it is safer to store passwords even in the same explorer, since it asks for a password from Windows, but so far I can’t recommend any particular browser for storing passwords. Perhaps there are some special storages for passwords with more or less steep encryption, but again, all this is manageable

Answer 4

insecure because Google itself should not be trusted, it says that it encrypts your passwords, but what it actually does there, how it encrypts them, is unknown.

Answer 5

If you enter the password in the browser to see other passwords, then the virus can intercept the password and, of course, decrypt the vault (if it is encrypted).
Viruses work according to a pre-prepared scenario.
So they look and get data from all "standard" places.
It is safest to store passwords in a non-standard place, in a non-standard password manager, then the virus script will not be able to predict where exactly to get them from.