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I use Google Chrome 12.0 (google-chrome-stable) and Seahorse on Ubuntu 10.10 (I know Seahorse is not the GNOME keyring, but it might be easier for others to search).

Always when I start Chrome I get a prompt for my keyring password. It seems like Chrome doesn't save anything in it. So, why does Chrome ask for the passoword?

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Did you have CHrome to save your passwords as encrypted? I cannot simulate this on my system – Sathya♦ Jul 16 '11 at 12:19
I don't know. If Chrome asked me some time ago, I could have used this. Where can I check this? – moose Jul 16 '11 at 12:56
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Unfortunately, older versions of Chrome must unlock the keyring to be able to check if you've saved passwords for a particular site. This has been fixed in the current development version; Chrome will now only prompt to unlock your keyring if it actually needs to retrieve a password from it. If you don't want to use an unstable version of Chrome, you can work around the issue by passing the --password-store=basic option so that Chrome uses it's own password store rather than attempting to use the GNOME keyring.

For more information, see bug #85285 in the Chromium bug tracker.

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I get prompted for my password to unlock the keyring every time Chrome starts, however even if I cancel it, my saved passwords are still available. – Mike Jul 19 '11 at 16:17
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