How to view Saved passwords behind Asterisks

You must be fond of saving passwords of various sites and services in your browser .  But have you ever thought what would happen if you forgot that password?? How to see saved password in your password??

Also suddenly you got to see your friends browser and he have saved some passwords in his browser !! What about Facebook?? Do you want to know that saved password?? Here I will show you an excellent way to see saved password in browser .

 

You must be thinking How it is possible to view saved passwords behind asterisks. But yes it is possible to view saved password. Let me show you 2 methods to view saved passwords in browser.

1. Use Javascript to View Hidden Password behing Asterisks

This is the JavaScript which will work in most of the browser except firefox. Now even firefox it may work. First just Copy below given code and save as bookmark in bookmark toolbar. Then open the webpage on which you want to see saved passwords  and click on bookmarked Javascript button which you have created just now.

Incase you are experiencing error of “DNS Lookup failed ” or cannot open site then read : How to Fix ” Cannot open some sites” “DNS lookup failed” Error

Another way is that just copy the javascript code and open the page

where you want to see the saved password and paste code into address bar and press enter button. In both the javascript method  a popup showing the desired password will appear in the center . You can see the example below.

 

javascript: var p=r(); function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k<w.length;k++) {var x = ((x) || (z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if (!x) alert('Password not found in ' + g + ' forms');}function z(f){var b=false;for(var i=0;i<f.length;i++) {var e=f[i].elements;for(var j=0;j<e.length;j++) {if (h(e[j])) {b=true}}}return b;}function h(ej){var s='';if (ej.type=='password'){s=ej.value;if (s!=''){prompt('Password found ', s)}else{alert('Password is blank')}return true;}}

3. A special Add-on for firefox Browser

If you are using mozilla firefox as your default and desired browser and want to see saved passwords then above method may not work . But don’t worry we have another method for you. There is One Firefox extension known as Show my Password which turns asterisks into human readable content – that is your password!!!! . After Installing this amazing  add on ,open the webpage containing password and click the password box it will show the password to you.

Download Show my Password

CONCLUSION

Thus these methods are very useful to get the saved passwords incase you forgot but it may also be used in negative . So its my request that Don’t use it for illegal purpose . Thanks for reading my article . If you face any problem , you are free to contact me or comment here .

Also Please share this wonderful trick with your friends . Maybe they are in need of this trick .