Most modern browsers offer the capability of remembering usernames and passwords. Most of us use this feature to automatically save our usernames and passwords in order to log in to our favorite websites more quickly. What if you forget the saved username and password? As web browsers intelligently hide passwords using stars asterisks or dots (********) there is no way in which a user can recover his password by simply looking at what the browser shows. Here are simple a guide that you can use to reveal your password for a website when you have forgotten it but your browser remembers it. In situations that require you to know what lies behind those asterisks.
These hidden passwords are disguised with the help of simple HTML and CSS. So just changing the value of something specific will easily reveal what’s behind those bullets or astericks. We’ll show you how this is done in Google Chrome and Firefox.
Google Chrome
In any website which contains your saved password, right click on the password box and click on Inspect element.
You’ll now notice the bottom quarter of your screen filled with codes You only need to focus on the highlighted (in blue) part to reveal the password.
Look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘. It should now look like type="text" Hit Enter.
After you’ve changed that, the text behind the asterisks or bullets will be revealed.
Mozilla Firefox
To reveal the password in Firefox first, right click the password box and select Inspect Element.
A dark grey bar will appear at the bottom of the browser click on the Markup Panel or hit Alt + M
It will reveal a few lines of codes the line you want to focus at is the highlighted line
Again, look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘ so it looks like type="text" Then hit Enter.
The password masked behind the asterisks or bullets will now be revealed.
Wrap Up
We have the tendency to hit the Remember Me option to save our login passwords for easy access. After a while, it’s possible that we’d forget what the password was. This quick tip will be useful to help you retrieve your passwords from behind the cover of asterisks.
These hidden passwords are disguised with the help of simple HTML and CSS. So just changing the value of something specific will easily reveal what’s behind those bullets or astericks. We’ll show you how this is done in Google Chrome and Firefox.
Google Chrome
In any website which contains your saved password, right click on the password box and click on Inspect element.
You’ll now notice the bottom quarter of your screen filled with codes You only need to focus on the highlighted (in blue) part to reveal the password.
Look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘. It should now look like type="text" Hit Enter.
After you’ve changed that, the text behind the asterisks or bullets will be revealed.
Mozilla Firefox
To reveal the password in Firefox first, right click the password box and select Inspect Element.
A dark grey bar will appear at the bottom of the browser click on the Markup Panel or hit Alt + M
It will reveal a few lines of codes the line you want to focus at is the highlighted line
Again, look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘ so it looks like type="text" Then hit Enter.
The password masked behind the asterisks or bullets will now be revealed.
Wrap Up
We have the tendency to hit the Remember Me option to save our login passwords for easy access. After a while, it’s possible that we’d forget what the password was. This quick tip will be useful to help you retrieve your passwords from behind the cover of asterisks.
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