

- #HSTRACKER WANTS TO USE YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PASSWORD#
- #HSTRACKER WANTS TO USE YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION MAC#
I actually recommend that you do this to eliminate any future headaches. Or you could simply delete all of the Web form passwords from Keychain Access in one fell swoop, just type “web form” in the search box without quotes. If you’re getting this message in Chrome for any other site, simply repeat these steps.
#HSTRACKER WANTS TO USE YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PASSWORD#
Now that Reddit is out of the Keychain, I can now browse Reddit via Chrome without that annoying pop-up message! Since I use 1Password, I’m not worried about saving any passwords to my Keychain, and I simply keep the password options in Chrome disabled. To solve this issue, all I needed to do was delete the Reddit Web form password entry from the Keychain using my keyboard’s delete key. If I access Reddit via Safari, it’s all fine and dandy, it will reach out to the Keychain, and grab the username and password with no prompts on my end. This was the culprit that caused Chrome to continually prompt me for access to the Keychain. Sure enough, there it was, a “Web form password” for Reddit. In my case, the website in question was Reddit. Once Keychain Access is open, do a search for the offending website in the search bar in the upper right-hand corner. You’ll probably be prompted for your administrator password to mess around with Keychain Access. Or, go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access. To open your Keychain Access, search for Keychain Access via Spotlight. I was wasting my time.Īs the pop-up message states, this was an issue with accessing some data in the Keychain, so obviously, I needed to do some snooping around the Keychain in order to see what was up. Hence, deleting password history, and sync settings within Chrome wasn’t going to do a thing. This message is requesting access to the keychain, not something stored within Chrome’s settings. I’m going to go ahead and take most of the blame for my frustration, because if I would have just read the message and thought about it for a while, I would have fixed this a long time ago. After some clicks, the message will go away, but a simple refresh of the website in question will cause the pop-up message to rear its ugly head once more. As stated above, it doesn’t matter which buttons you click on this message. Remember, this data was saved to the keychain via Safari, not Chrome. This is where trouble beganĬhrome, for whatever nefarious reason, hits up the Keychain Access to request the confidential password information stored there. Safari asking to save my Reddit password.

Chrome doesn’t care that you used Safari to save these passwords, it simply request access anyway…repeatedly…over and over, until it drives you to the brink of losing it. At one time, I decided to save passwords with Safari, and that’s where my troubles began. Apparently, Safari saves passwords to the Keychain, and Chrome simply sees them as a plain old “Web form password”, so it requests access from the Keychain. The problem, oddly enough, seems to stem from my former use of Safari, a browser I haven’t used in quite a while.
#HSTRACKER WANTS TO USE YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION MAC#
If you’re having the same problem, which apparently many Chrome users on the Mac are, then take a look inside for the fix… Basically, I got to the point where If I saw that message one more time, I was going to rip my hair out!īut I solved the issue, and it was actually easier, and more obvious than I expected. I tried disabling password syncing in Chrome’s settings, clearing all saved passwords, etc., all to no avail. Have you ever had Google Chrome on OS X present a pop up message that states: Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in the…blah, blah, blah… in your keychain?Įven if you select Always Allow, Deny, or Allow, the message continues to pop up each time you visit specific sites.
