Solved Cannot delete all saved passwords

Maxou0

Hi,
I found a solution to remove all passwords at once on my Win10 PC. I searched after having had an import bug from Chrome, only the urls and usernames were correct, the passwords were empty. Vivaldi version 3.8.2259.42

I used cleaning software (cClea ** r ^^)
In "Custom Clean -> Applications -> Vivaldi:
Select "Saved Passwords" and start the cleaner
All passwords will be deleted
After in the Vivaldi settings "Reset remote data", then "Disconnection"
Relaunch the browser, connect and Synchronize.
Passwords are correctly deleted
I then imported my Chrome mdp from a .csv

Everything is ok

lameone

@kubamiszcz
I just managed to do it myself without external software.

Disable Syncing, and reset remote data.
Re-Enable Syncing, but uncheck the "password" option before you hit apply.
Navigate to the folder on your machine listed under "Profile Path" at vivaldi://about/
Use the Delete Browsing Data tool to remove all passwords store with the time duration set to "all". I only did passwords, so nothing else was deleted.
Close Vivaldi.
Delete the files "Login Data" and Login Data-journal.

You should be good to go here. I think it's a combination of Vivaldi always trying to pull from the sync, it's local backup, and it's local storage, so you need to handle all 3 or the passwords will keep coming back. That said, it's incredibly counter-intuitive, and the functionality to delete passwords is absolutely a standard expectation, especially as password managers are more and more commonplace.

ukanuk

As far as I can tell this issue should NOT have the RESOLVED tag, should it?

I filed VB-76628 earlier in this thread along these lines, perhaps an admin can check the bugtracker and see the current status of this ticket? I would hope by now it's either "fixed" (meaning I should file another ticket as it may have regressed) or marked "as intended", in which case at least we can agree to disagree.

I can use Menu > Tools > Delete Browsing Data to delete all passwords from all time, and I can check vivaldi://sync-internals to see that Total Entries of synced Passwords goes down to zero. I can even delete passwords individually in vivaldi://settings/privacy and in chrome://settings/passwords, and I see the sync internals indicate one less password being synced.

But the changes still do not propagate across my devices. If I delete an amazon.com password from my personal computer, my work computer still has that password saved and keeps it until I also manually delete it on my work computer. Same thing with deleting all passwords on my personal computer, I have to manually delete them on my work computer as well to get them to really go away.

DoctorG

@ukanuk said in Cannot delete all saved passwords:

As far as I can tell this issue should NOT have the RESOLVED tag, should it?

Please contact someone from Moderator Team by chat to remove the tag.

DoctorG

I can not reproduce the issue anymore on 5.4 Stable+5.5 RC1 Snapshot 5.4 Android 10.
I will close bug VB-76628 "Deleting a saved password on one of my devices does NOT delete it from any of my other devices.".

psycr0w

@lameone said in Cannot delete all saved passwords:

@kubamiszcz
I just managed to do it myself without external software.

Disable Syncing, and reset remote data.

Re-Enable Syncing, but uncheck the "password" option before you hit apply.

Navigate to the folder on your machine listed under "Profile Path" at vivaldi://about/

Use the Delete Browsing Data tool to remove all passwords store with the time duration set to "all". I only did passwords, so nothing else was deleted.

Close Vivaldi.

Delete the files "Login Data" and Login Data-journal.

You should be good to go here. I think it's a combination of Vivaldi always trying to pull from the sync, it's local backup, and it's local storage, so you need to handle all 3 or the passwords will keep coming back. That said, it's incredibly counter-intuitive, and the functionality to delete passwords is absolutely a standard expectation, especially as password managers are more and more commonplace.

Can confirm these steps work perfectly on a Mac. Since I've "converted" to a out-of-browser password manager (Bitwarden), this has cleared the stored passwords in bulk. To be sure, I'm leaving Sync Passwords unchecked going forward.

Rather unfortunate there isn't a more solid way in-browser to address this, to begin with.