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Browser configuration

Turn off your browser's built-in password manager so it stops competing with KeepInVault.

Every browser ships with its own password manager, and it will keep offering to save the same logins and covering KeepInVault's fill icon with its own dropdown. Turning it off takes a minute and is the difference between the two fighting and KeepInVault just working.

Chrome#

  1. 1
    Open chrome://password-manager/settings.
  2. 2
    Turn off "Offer to save passwords" and "Sign in automatically".
  3. 3

    Optional: move your existing passwords over

    Export from chrome://password-manager/passwords, import into KeepInVault, then delete them from Chrome so there's one source of truth.

That export file is plain text

A password export is an unencrypted list of every credential you have. Import it and delete the file straight away — don't leave it in Downloads, and don't sync it to cloud storage on the way.

Other browsers#

  • Edge — edge://settings/passwords, turn off "Offer to save passwords".
  • Brave — brave://settings/autofill → Password manager, same toggle.
  • Opera — opera://settings/passwords.
  • Vivaldi — vivaldi://settings/passwords.
  • Firefox — about:preferences#privacy, uncheck "Ask to save logins and passwords for websites".

What the extension asks for, and why#

On install, your browser warns that the extension can "read and change data on the sites you visit". That's what lets it find username and password fields at all — it's the same permission every autofill extension needs, including the one built into your browser.

  • It looks at form fields to know where to put a username and password. It doesn't read page content beyond that.
  • It stores your encrypted session locally and talks to the KeepInVault API.
  • Decryption happens in your browser, the same as everywhere else in KeepInVault — the server never holds a key.