How do I delete many (but not all) Chrome/Google Account stored website passwords at once?

Question

I've seen many recipes to delete ALL Google passwords, but I do not want to remove all, just a big bunch of them! Is this possible?

Some workaround, like backing up to a local file, delete all from cloud, edit local file and re-upload it would be just as good...

Answer 1

Many people voted down my question, so I decided to research a little bit more and apparently I found some way to do what I needed. The answer is not trivial, needs some work.

• First, enable importing/exporting passwords to a file. On older chromes you need to first set a experimental flag: chrome://flags/#password-import-export. On newer ones, apparently, exporting is now default, but you need to enable import at chrome://flags/#PasswordImport. After changing, restart your browser.

If I have know this was possible before, I would not had asked, but have I told that I've been searching for this for a long time?

• Export your passwords to a file: Go to Settings/Passwords, click the 3 dots right off "Saved passwords" headline and export!

This will create a CSV file. Edit as you wish.

• Now, delete all Google Password. You can do it at Settings/Advanced/Clear Browsing Data. Select Advanced, Passwords and other sign-in data, and Clear Data.

• You may now want to go to https://passwords.google.com/dashboard to check if it is empty.

• Finally, import the edited file. Go again to Settings/Passwords, click the 3 dots right off "Saved passwords" headline and import!

• If you go to https://passwords.google.com/dashboard to check, you may find that it is listing less passwords than there were in the CSV file. I think it may be because Google counts "Groups of sites", not only "Sites". For example, https://facebook.com/ is counted as the same as https://www.facebook.com/.

Hope this helps others.