Google is increasing the security and convenience of the Autofill feature in Chrome when entering your payment details and passwords.

Patrick Nepper, Google Chrome Product Manager, and Stan Li, Google Payments Product Manager, announced two new features heading to Chrome on the Chromium blog. The first is to do with keeping your payment card details more secure when accessing them from within Chrome, the second is focused on making password entry on Android phones as convenient as possible without impacting security.

Google saves payment card details to your Google account and then only transfers the payment information to Chrome when required to complete a transaction. Previously, Chrome required transactions be confirmed by entering your three-digit Card Verification Code (CVC) located on the back of your card. However, Google is adding the option to confirm using biometric information such as a fingerprint. That way, you don't have to remember the CVC number or take the time to get your card out of your wallet.

The second new feature is called "touch-to-fill" and it should make entering passwords much more convenient on Android phones. Chrome's built-in password manager already saves login credentials for you, but soon it will start presenting your saved accounts in a dialog box so you can just tap to choose which login to use for the current website. It should prove to be a big time saver on mobile devices.

Google says the biometric confirmation feature is already available in Chrome for Windows and Mac, and will be added to Chrome for Android "in the coming weeks." Nepper and Li also point out that biometric information never leaves your device and that Chrome relies on the W3C standard WebAuth to "securely enroll you for biometric authentication." As for the touch-to-fill feature, Android users can also expect to get it "in the coming weeks."

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