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by lewisl9029 4083 days ago
Any idea why browsers haven't implemented their own native password generation functionality yet?

If nothing else, having this functionality built into popular browsers would increase public awareness of better password practices by at least an order of magnitude.

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There's an option you can enable in chrome://flags to enable a password generator. I don't believe the user gets any control over the password's complexity right now, but it looks like it's something that the Chrome team is at least considering.

I'm not aware of anything similar being built into Firefox.

Great question, I'd love to hear from someone on the Chrome or Mozilla teams about this. Until then we'll just have to assume they are all busy finding new and interesting ways for browsers to use up more system memory.
Safari on the Mac does.