Microsoft tests the new feature of password manager in Edge browser: displays the password strength indicator bar, and finds that weak passwords will remind users.

CTOnews.com February 4 news, according to netizen Leopeva64-2 broke the news, in the latest version of Microsoft Edge Canary channel, Microsoft further enhanced the password manager function. Edge alerts users when it detects that they are trying to save weak passwords.

Edge also displays a progress bar to indicate how strong the password is and encourages users to use complex, hard-to-guess passwords. CTOnews.com understands that Microsoft isn't the only company working on improving password manager, Google has been mulling similar features for months now, just in a slightly different way than Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft is currently only open to a small number of Edge Canary users, at this stage is mainly to collect user feedback to adjust optimization, the future will be open to all Edge users.