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by discreditable 3062 days ago
I think Firefox's solution is a little better. You can set a master password which is used to encrypt the password database. To unlock you have to enter the password. You can browse without unlocking.
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Both the iPhone and Google Chrome ask for authentication before showing the passwords.

Firefox works similarly: Once you unlock it, you see all the passwords. On an iPhone or Google Chrome, you have to click each password you want to see.

Fortunately, Chrome for Linux and Chrome OS don't ask. Both OSes trust users to control access at the session level.