Managing auto-complete suggestions, especially for logins

[mmiller]

While trying to log in to a website recently, I got mixed up on what prompt I was at, and accidentally entered my password for my user ID. The login failed. I tried again, using my ID first, followed by password, and everything went fine. The problem then became that whenever I went to the same website to log in, Brave would list my password in plain text as one of the user ID auto-complete suggestions. I figured if I ignored this long enough, and didn’t use that entry, the suggestion would eventually go away. I did this for a while, but it still got me worried. So, I researched if there was a way to delete this auto-complete entry for the login screen at this one website, and thankfully, I found a way:

How to clear / delete autofill entry

I must say, that browser stores for autofilling more than adresses and these “others” are impossible to delete from settings. I will write this as the manual, because I did work on it long and it can help many people. There are many of autofilling issue already, some not answered or answered only by hidding this issue, so if this will not be repaired or handled somehow in brave I can be still constructive at least. This advice did not work for me: “Settings → Privacy and security → Clear bro…

It was a bit technical, requiring that I install a tool for manipulating a SQLite database (I used a tool called “DB Browser for SQLite”). Mission accomplished!

It got me thinking that it would be nice if there was a way within Brave to delete individual auto-complete suggestions, especially for login screens, that Brave users might accidentally give it. I think it would help with keeping our web accounts secure, but perhaps people would like it for auto-complete suggestions generally.

[Saoiray]

Well, yours would have either been saved under brave://settings/autofill where you would have just removed the saved entry. However, if not that, you should see in most of the suggestions that there’s an X next to the suggestion. You can click that to get rid of it.

I’d like to confirm that but need to kind of figure out a website location you’re saying this happened. (just in case it’s a different scenario than I’m used to seeing)