Most web browsers provide their users with the ability to save passwords visited pages. This feature is quite comfortable and useful because you do not need to memorize and enter passwords each time on authentication. However, if you look at the other hand, you can see an increase in the risk of disclosing at once all passwords. It encourages to think about how to continually secure. A good solution will put a password for the browser. Under protection there will be not only saved passwords, but also history, bookmarks and all the checkouts of the browser.
How to protect password web browser
Protection can be installed in several ways: using supplements in the browser, or using special utilities. Let's see how to put a password using the two options above. For example, all actions will be shown in a web browser Opera. However, everything is done similarly in other browsers.Method 1: Using a browser supplement
It is possible to establish protection using in the extension web browser. For example, for Google Chrome. and Yandex browser You can use LockWP. For Mozilla Firefox. You can put Master Password +. Additionally, read the lessons for installing passwords on well-known browsers:
How to put a password on Yandex.Bauzer
How to put a password for Mozilla Firefox browser
How to put a password for Google Chrome browser
Let's activate the Supplement Set Password for your browser in Opera.
- Being on the Opera Start page, click "Expansion".
- In the center of the window is the link "Go to the gallery" - click on it.
- A new tab will open, where we need to enter into the "Set Password for Your Browser" search string.
- Add this application to Opera and it is installed.
- A frame will appear with a proposal to enter an arbitrary password and click "OK". It is important to come up with a challenging password using numbers, as well as Latin letters, including capital. At the same time, you yourself must remember the entered data to have access to your web browser.
- Next, it will be proposed to restart the browser to change the changes.
- Now every time you start Opera, you must enter a password.
- When opening the program, a window will appear with the first step, where you just need to click "Next".
- Further open the program and by clicking "Browse", select the path to the browser on which you want to put a password. For example, choose Google Chrome and click "Next".
- Now it is proposed to enter your password and repeat it below. After - click "Next".
- The fourth step is the final where you need to click "Finish".
- When you start Game Protector, a window will appear where you need to select the path to the browser, for example, Google Chrome.
- In the following two fields, we enter twice the password.
- Next, we leave both and press "Protect".
- The information window will unfold on the screen, which says that the browser protection is established successfully. Click "OK".
Method 2: Application of special utilities
You can also use an additional software with which the password is installed on any program. Consider two such utilities: EXE Password and Game Protector.Exe Password.
This program is compatible with any version of Windows. It is necessary to download it from the developer's website and install yourself on a computer, following the prompts of a step-by-step master.
Download Exe Password.
Now, when you try to open Google Chrome, a frame will appear where you want to enter a password.
Game Protector
This is a free utility that allows you to set a password to any program.
Download Game Protector
As you can see, set the password to your browser is quite real. Of course, it is not always done only by installing extensions, sometimes you need to upload additional programs.