Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer

All platforms:
The Firefox Asterisk Revealer reveals the contents of any password whose text is obscured by asterisks in an alert box using a simple JavaScript.
How often do we forget are saved passwords? very often. It takes just a few months of blogging to accumulate so many passwords, I should personally have over 15 different accounts.
So how do I recover the password I’ve saved but can’t remember any more;
Here is your account;

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Now you want to see the password in letters.Paste this script in your browsers address bar and hit enter

There you are; your password pops-up in letters

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This script works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera.
To protect your passwords avoid saving them if you’re using a public or shared computer.

13 Comments;

  1. Men32
    6:05 pm on November 30th, 2007

    Very smart…

  2. iisa
    6:07 pm on November 30th, 2007

    Wicked :-(

  3. built-in feature
    12:17 am on December 12th, 2007

    Um… Firefox has a built in feature for this:

    Edit > Options > Security tab
    click the ‘Show Passwords’ button, and in the window that pops up, click ‘Show Passwords’ and affirm the dialog box.

    (For Windows users, Options is under the Tools menu)

    Easy…

  4. Jake
    1:22 am on December 12th, 2007

    @built-in feature: It’s Edit>Preferences on Linux and Tools>Options on Windows. What were you referring to… OS X?

  5. Joe Mama
    5:11 am on December 12th, 2007

    Seems to me this combined with some AJAX could be trouble…

  6. jb
    6:21 am on December 12th, 2007

    [To Jake] Nope. Preferences in almost all OS X apps are in the application menu. So it’s Firefox > Preferences on OS X.

  7. Daniel
    5:01 pm on December 12th, 2007

    Joe Mama; not sure if you mean in terms of websites logging your passwords or what ..? If a website owner wants to log your password, it’s the easiest thing in the world.

  8. aksn1p3r
    5:51 pm on December 13th, 2007

    Thanks for linkback!
    Checkout FireMaster for master password… it works, but not as efficiently.

  9. Martin Kaba
    4:39 pm on December 16th, 2007

    Many have asked why use this script when Firefox has a built in feature Edit>Preferences>Security>”Show Password” - the answer is simple; Because it works on many other browsers that do not have the Show Password feature.

  10. Andreas
    8:31 pm on December 16th, 2007

    It works verywell.Thats made me a bit sad. So never save anypassword on a puplic PC

  11. ohad
    2:28 pm on April 21st, 2008

    10x

  12. digitalzip
    11:06 pm on June 19th, 2008

    I have Roboform password filler and it is one of the best pieces of software I have ever bought. It will fill web forms in for you and keeps all your passwords safe. I have hundreds of different passwords and it saves me lots of time.

  13. Martin Kaba
    11:51 pm on June 19th, 2008

    Roboform is great, unfortunately it is neither free nor open source and moreover it is for Microsoft Windows only… too bad. I prefer KeePass

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