How to Enable Chrome 78 Hidden Dark Mode and Secure Password Features
Chrome 78 is here. If you’re lucky, your browser should already be updated to a newer version, which contains bug fixes, security fixes, and faster, hovering fields when you hover over tabs. Chrome 78 also has two fun features (for your desktop or laptop) that take a little digging to turn on.
How to enable password leak detection in Chrome 78
This feature, as the name suggests, will notify you if any of the accounts you’ve previously saved in Chrome show up with any kind of data breach. Google will crawl any usernames and passwords against its hack database – and, yes, that information is hashed, so you’re not just sending your information in clear text back and forth to a Google server. Password Leak Detection is essentially a built-in version of the password verification extension previously released by Google , if that helps.
To enable password leak detection in Chrome 78, first make sure you are using Chrome 78 by clicking the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of your browser, hovering over Help, and clicking About Google Chrome. ”Your browser will check if the latest version is installed; otherwise, it will download it and offer to update.
When you’re ready, type chrome://flags/#password-leak-detection into your browser’s address bar, hit Enter and enable this feature.
How to enable forced dark mode in Chrome 78
We’ve talked about this before, so I’ll do it quickly. The Force Dark Mode feature in Chrome 78 allows websites to be set to a dark mode that would not otherwise have a style customized for people who prefer a darker look. Rather than being overwhelmed by a bright white page, Chrome will roughly match what it thinks a dark theme should look like. So for Lifehacker this becomes:
It’s not great, but it gets the job done if you despise when flamboyant websites surprise you. (Rhymes inadvertently.) To have chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark mode, just type chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark in the address bar, press Enter and enable this feature.