Gemini might automatically change weak passwords in the future on Chrome

On the current version of Chrome (stable), Google’s password manager has a feature called Password Checkup. After scanning your saved passwords, it shows you whether any of them are compromised, weak, or reused. At the moment, you only have the option to manually change the password (or choose a suggested one), but Gemini could automatically change it for you in the future.

A flag was added to Chrome Canary recently (Password change with Glic), and it can “trigger password changes.” For now, Google’s password manager automatically suggests a strong password on its own, but it won’t automatically trigger the update unless you manually intervene. Once this feature makes it to Chrome stable, you’ll have the option to directly change the password. Information about this flag was initially posted by @Leopeva64 on X.

The screenshot below represents the current behavior on Chrome stable. As you can see, after running the checkup, it only gives me an option to change the password.

On Chrome Canary, I’ve enabled the “Password change with Glic” flag and restarted the browser.

However, it still gives me the same “Change password” option that I saw on Chrome stable, implying that the feature hasn’t reached me yet.

For those unaware, Glic refers to “Gemini Live in Chrome,” which is an internal project name for baking the Gemini AI assistant into a feature of Google Chrome. It just means that Gemini will change your password, in simple terms.

Once the flag actually begins functioning, it’s supposed to say “Change it for me” instead of “Change password.” The original source also mentions that the feature doesn’t actually work yet, and the password change doesn’t actually occur. It either gets stuck on “Attempting…” or displays an error message.

Either way, since the flag is still in Chrome Canary and hasn’t even moved to Beta, it’ll probably take a while before we get it on the public version.

In other Chrome news, the v152 stable update is rolling out to the public now. More on that here.

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