Here is a recent discussion on chromium-dev about the password manager: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch...
Evidently, only 0.0085% of users toggle on the "Use a master password"
Evidently, only 0.0085% of users toggle on the "Use a master password"
* I don't even know how to setup a master password and have never heard of the option being available in FF or Chrome. I also don't know what it does. Does it replace all password boxes with a master-password that you enter which then pulls down the appropriate password? Is it a keychain?
Saying "X people don't use this feature" could mean anything. It could mean the feature is buried in the system, or that the feature isn't descriptive enough, or that the feature is hard to understand... it doesn't default to being "people clearly don't want that feature".
[*] I could research it, but I'm giving you my current uneducated opinion to make a point.
Easy as pie.
"All you have to do is go to password settings and click the button"
And you only have to go there once ever.
I think it's usually assumed users can navigate menus, because even if they can't there's not much you can do to help them at this point.
It's right there in the security tab. TWO clicks.
1. open preferences
2. click on security
And it's RIGHT THERE. That's about as obvious as I can imagine it.