As many of you know, Firefox will offer to remember your password whenever you log into a website requiring authentication, for example, Digg, Reddit etc. for the first time. I won’t go into the security implications of letting Firefox remember your passwords for you, because this is obvious. Anyone with access to your computer will also have access to your login information, simple as that.
Whenever you log into your favorite website, your user-name shows up in the user-name field, but the password shows up as asterisks or dots as follows.
As long as those little dots/asterisks are in the password field, you will be able to retrieve that password easily. Here’s how to do it.
- Click Tools/Options in the Firefox menu
- The Options Window will pop up. Select the Security Tab at the top right of that window and click On the Show Passwords button to the lower right to bring up the Remember Passwords Window
- Click on the Show Passwords button at the lower right.
- Once you’ve clicked on the Show Passwords, you should see most of the passwords for the sites you visit.
hi. thanks for this. we found it helpful! it’s funny because we’ve never really thought where our passwords reside in Firefox and i for one, wanted to see or perhaps change a password but don’t know where to go so i just skip it.
one thing though, maybe we’re just being paranoid from all the bad people using the internet but you may want to REALLY ERASE the passwords you have shown on the image!! we’ve seen a show before where a photoshop image was distorted and erased like this one- just brushed and there’s another software that can actually unerase the brush to reveal the original image! that’s scary. don’t know how they did it but they showed it!
someone might actually want to see what you have over-written on the image and reveal your passwords..just a thought. sorry if it sounds crazy! but these days, nothing seem impossible anymore!
Cheers!