Eddie On Everything » firefox http://www.eddieoneverything.com Tips & tricks on things that interest me Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How To Reveal Stored Passwords in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE http://www.eddieoneverything.com/internet/how-to-reveal-stored-passwords-in-firefox-chrome-safari-and-ie.php http://www.eddieoneverything.com/internet/how-to-reveal-stored-passwords-in-firefox-chrome-safari-and-ie.php#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:56:02 +0000 eddie http://www.eddieoneverything.com/?p=457 Nowadays browsers store passwords then auto-populate forms, hiding that stored password behind little dots or asterisks.  Guess what? There is a way to reveal the password hidden behind there.  This is very handy for when you forget your password but have it stored in the browser.

Reveal Stored Passwords in Mozilla Firefox and Chrome

Navigate to the page where the passwords are stored.  Paste this code into the location bar and hit enter.  The passwords will be revealed.

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;}}

Note that the flip-side of this trick is that you probably shouldn’t be storing your password for sensitive websites – anyone with access to your computer could use this trick to reveal your password, write it down, then check your email/bank/cheating-on-your-spouse account from anywhere.

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