How to enable pasting in password field in Chrome

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Just now I wanted to change my costco.com password. I have a password file where I store passwords. I use a pseudo-random character generator in Excel to generate 16 character passwords containing numbers, upper and lower case letters and so-called “punctuation” characters like #$%^( etc. As is usually the case, the “change password” function asked me for my current password, which I was able to copy and paste from my password file. But when I tried copying and pasting the new password, nothing happened. I have read on the Internet that some sites use a method where a script immediately deletes the content of the field if anything is pasted into the field. Someone else said you can configure Chrome to get around this but they didn’t say how. Does anyone here know how?

Thanks,
Don

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Instead of right-click paste, try Ctrl + V

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Me too.  Whenever there is no dropdown menu to choose paste from, I just put the cursor in the box and hit Ctrl + V.   This will paste whatever is on the clipboard.  And Ctrl + C will copy anything I highlight.

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There’s an extension called “Don’t **** With Paste” that fixes this in Firefox and Chrome. The word you think probably goes in there is part of the name, and I wish they’d just called it “Don’t F With Paste” or something, but it works.

I loathe that some sites (and programs that have their own logins) do this. Such arrogance on the part of the author to presume to tell me the manner in which I may enter a password!

I’ve never even seen most of my passwords, as mine are generated the same as yours.  They’re random strings of characters, so I’d have to first paste it into a text file or some other such thing as a reference, then stare at the characters and try to remember and copy the characters one at a time, which is liable to induce errors (as well as highly annoying and time consuming), while copy/paste is fast and precise. There is no security benefit to having to go through all of these unnecessary motions.

In Windows, I wrote an Autohotkey script that would pop up a dialog when I entered a certain key combination, and into that dialog I could paste whatever string I wished and hit enter. When I wanted to paste it, I could use another key combo (probably alt-V or ctrl-alt-V, that would be the kind of thing I would pick) to have the script simulate the keypresses that would write the string (of course, I’d have to be sure to focus the field first). I’ve used xdotool in Linux to do the same from a shell script. With the above extension, though, I seldom need to do that, as the browser is the most common place to need to enter something like that, and the extension takes care of it.

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I use KeePass and it will type the password for you – and the username etc. It’s called Auto-Type in KeePass.

cheers, Paul

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