Microsoft on Thursday announced a new password generator for the recently released Edge 88.

The generator provides a drop-down in the password field.

Clicking on the candidate selects it as a password and saves it to a password manager built into the browser.

Rather than having to think up a password that’s truly unique and hard to guess, users can instead have a generator do it properly.

“Microsoft Edge offers a built-in strong password generator that you can use when signing up for a new account or when changing an existing password,” members of Microsoft’s Edge team wrote.

“Just look for the browser-suggested password drop down in the password field and when selected, it will automatically save to the browser and sync across devices for easy future use.”.

Edge 88 is also rolling out a feature called the "password monitor." As the name suggests, it monitors saved passwords to make sure none of them are included in lists compiled from website compromises or phishing attacks.

When turned on, the password monitor will alert users when a password matches lists published online.

Since only the server knows the hash function H, the client is prevented from performing an efficient dictionary attack on the server, a type of brute force attack that uses a large combination of possibilities to determine a password.

Chief among them is a fuller-featured password manager that’s built into the browser.