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If chrome ever removes that setting, I will make chromereveal.com with one-click idiot-proof password dumping tool, and step-by step instructions. So hiding that button will not make it harder for your friends.

Just logout and give them guest access...geez.




that does make it psychologically harder - I have to go to a site with clear malicious intention, rather than pay a visit to a setting which the browser itself provides.


Classic security theater.


So you log out of your computer every time you give your computer to your wife?


For the sake of argument, I'll answer this with s/wife/friends/

Yes, if I'm not besides it, I will switch user accounts. And if I walk away from my computer for a bit, I lock it (except when there are no untrusted people around, like at home). I have "Lock Screen" bound to Ctrl-Alt-L, so it's trivial to do.


Why do you assume that I have saved passwords (or anything else) on my computer to which my wife is not permitted access?


To be fair I don't know of any passwords my wife can't know about. But I know that's barely an argument :-)




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