That does seem a bit strange. The Chrome devs have long taken the position that there's no point trying to encrypt local copies of passwords. You can see a very

That does seem a bit strange. The Chrome devs have long taken the position that there's no point trying to encrypt local copies of passwords. You can see a very long discussion about it here where Chrome devs argue that it's pointless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708 The comments by the chrome security tech lead would suggest that they wouldn't view this keychain issue as a security flaw. So I don't see why they would bother removing keychain integration. What is the replacement going to be? A password file encrypted with the password "peanuts"?[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714770