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How to Remove a Saved Password from a Browser
Last Updated 6 months ago
Removing a Password from a Browser’s Saved Password List
Saving your password in your Web browser’s saved password list can expose the data it protects to anyone else who uses your computer, and possibly to others on the Internet.
Web Login detects the use of saved passwords and prevents them from being used to log in to Boston University websites. To gain access to Web Login-protected sites, you must first remove the password from your browser’s saved password list, using the instructions below.
Mozilla Firefox
Windows
- Click the menu button and choose Preferences.
- Switch to the Security tab.
- Click on Saved Logins….
Mac OS X
- In the menu bar, open the Firefox menu.
- Select Preferences.
- Switch to the Security tab.
- Click on Saved Passwords.
Internet Explorer
To delete individual passwords:- Open the Tools menu.
- Select Internet Options.
- Click Content.
- Under AutoComplete, click Settings.
- Click on Manage Passwords
- Click on the Web Credentials Manager
- Click on the drop down arrow by the web site you want to remove the password.
- Click on Remove.
- Open the Tools menu.
- Select Internet Options.
- Click Content.
- Under AutoComplete, click Settings.
- Click Delete AutoComplete history…
Chrome
- Open the Chrome menu using the button on the far right of the browser toolbar.
- Choose the Settings menu option (highlighted in blue).
- Click the Show advanced settings… link located at the bottom of the page.
- In the “Passwords and forms” section, click the Manage passwords link.
- In the Passwords dialog that appears, hover over the site whose password you’d like to remove and click the X that appears.
- In the Passwords dialog that appears, hover over the site whose password you’d like to remove and click the X that appears.
Safari
- Open the Safari menu.
- Select Preferences.
- Switch to the Autofill tab.
- Click the Edit button for Usernames and Passwords
- Delete the entry that corresponds with mendocino.edu.
Opera
- Open the Tools menu.
- Select Advanced.
- Click on Password Manager.
- Delete the entry that corresponds with mendocino.edu.