Do web browsers store passwords in cookies?

It is totally depend on the website that how they want to use information transfer from server to client, it can be possible that they are using cookies to store your password because they don't want to give much burden on the server so they can use cookies to know the users.

But the fact is that cookies for storing password is now old technique now atmost all the websites using session techniques to store the password of users. Now we take a look why cookies now not using to store password on to browsers.

Near to three years ago cookies is the best way to store the password of the user by websites, but cookies is not a very secure way to store password because cookies can be easily read by the virus and malwares, it can harm you very badly.

When cookies used by website to store the password on the browser at that time given below steps are used by website to store password.

Now a days session used by most of the websites to store the password or we can say session technique is the best way right now to identify the user on websites.

Session is one of the secure method to communicate by user's of website. Now website oftenly using session in place of cookies to store the password and user name on the browser's cookies.

• When you logged on to the website at that time website match your user name with password and the combination of this will stored on your computer.
• Those combination of user name and password contain both the user name and password and it is stored on your computer on browser's cookies.
• And after this whenever you transfer information to that website the specific website know you from the cookies at which they store the combination of user name and password.

But after some time this technique get lots of attacks by hackers and sometime hackers got success to get the password and user name, so now a day this technique for storing password or user name on browser's cookies is often not used by websites.