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Primary Password/ Master Password Microsoft Edge

There have been questions raised similar to this one, but is there a setting for primary password in Microsoft Edge (a feature in Mozilla Firefox) to add another layer of security for saved passwords? 

Unfortunately not. It would be a good feature though so please make the suggestion via the feedback app - Windows key + F key.
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... another layer of security for saved passwords? 

Anyone who has access to your Windows user account has access to all your data - email, documents, photos and browsing history, for example. If you want to keep those data private, don't allow others to share your Windows user account.

As regards stored passwords, there is a second layer of security. This applies to passwords stored by Windows itself, by Windows programs and by browsers (Internet Explorer and Edge). Anyone wanting to view a saved password has to know the password to the Windows user account or (better still) the PIN you may have assigned. PIN is better because it can only be entered from the computer itself, so no-one - e.g. a hacker - can use it remotely.

Ideally, each person using a Windows computer should have his own user account and password. 

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Hi Time Lady, thanks for the suggestion.

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I am using shared PC.

There is a Credential Manager in Control Panel, but I was hoping that there is this same feature housed in Microsoft edge. For now, what I do is to manually sign-out my profile and delete all my saved data if someone's using the PC.

Thanks for the recommendation.

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"Ideally, each person using a Windows computer should have his own user account and password. "

but when you have multiple devices such as android and since the password is synced between devices, you have multiple weak points without a master password

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Thank you so much for the info. I am learning alot.  I have had someone getting into all of my accounts and getting all of my passwords.  I have changed them over and over and just learned that they can get all of them by going to my Microsoft account. I didn't know I also had a windows password. so thank you.

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... when you have multiple devices such as android and since the password is synced between devices, you have multiple weak points without a master password

On my Android phone, it's not possible to view passwords saved in Edge without knowing both (1) the password to the Edge profile, i.e. the Microsoft Account through which passwords are synchronized, and (2) the PIN to unlock the phone itself, which has to be entered before a password is revealed. How is this a 'weak point'?

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hi, maybe someone use az shared computer. and he can't allways reset and delete the edge! but in firefox  you  can save passwords but when someone else want to use the shared pc . firefox dose not show the passwords and it Requests the master password to show other passwords.

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