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Deleting individual autocomplete entries is not very discoverable

Project Member Reported by zea@chromium.org, Jan 31 2018

Issue description

On a page that has a split login (email on one page, password on another), I accidentally entered my password as the email. This wasn't saved via the password manager, but it was saved via Autocomplete (I've double checked by looking at the locally saved passwords).

Now, whenever I return to that page and focus on the login input, my password is suggested in plaintext. As far as I can tell there is no way to delete this specific text field suggestion without blowing away all my browsing data?

I'm assuming the Autofill component also includes Autocomplete, but feel free to redirect if not. Also including Autofill folks, since I think this falls under data transparency/control.
 

Comment 1 by se...@chromium.org, Jan 31 2018

Hi zea@

You can delete an autocomplete suggestion this way:

when you see the suggestion being displayed:
1- hover over (to "select" it)
2- press shift and delete

This should remove the autocomplete entry.

I hope this helps!

Comment 2 by zea@chromium.org, Jan 31 2018

Thanks, that worked! Although as far as discoverability goes...not sure how great a solution it is :)

Comment 3 by jochen@chromium.org, May 14 2018

Summary: Deleting individual autocomplete entries is not very discoverable (was: No way to delete an autocomplete entry that was accidentally saved without clearing all browsing data)
Owner: durgapandey@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
IIRC, +durgapandey@ has plans for this already.
Owner: nepper@chromium.org

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