Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer
- by Martin Kaba
- on Tue Nov 27, 2007
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;
Now you want to see the password in letters.Paste this script in your browsers address bar and hit enter
1 | javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password") s += f[i].value + "\n"; } } if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s); else alert("There are no saved passwords in forms on this page.");})(); |
There you are; your password pops-up in letters
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.
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