Microsoft Edge is storing passwords as plain text? Here's what Microsoft says.

Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and keeping them secure. However, ...

Microsoft Edge stores your passwords in plaintext RAM… on purpose

A security researcher showed that Edge passwords are plaintext readable in RAM. Microsoft confirmed the behavior is ...

Microsoft Says Edge Password Security Vulnerability Is ‘By Design’—Is It Time To Switch To Chrome?

Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords, decrypted and in plaintext, into memory at startup. Google Chrome doesn’t—is ...

Researcher shows Edge saves passwords in memory in cleartext, 'even when you're not using them'

You do need admin rights to get that far, though.