Password under the asterisks: how you can see it

Those who actively use the Internet andregistered on a lot of different sites, probably faced with this situation: you need to log in to the page, and as luck would have it the password flew out of your head. It often happens that in some browser the password is stored in the browser's memory and shown as asterisks, and in this case it is not necessary to enter it. This, of course, helps, but the cache is not stored forever, and sooner or later the password under the asterisks will have to be re-entered, and if it can not be restored, the access will be lost and will have to be re-registered.

Of course, you can suggest using differentsites the same password, however, in practice this is not always possible, because the requirements for different resources are different: somewhere the minimum length must be at least eight characters, somewhere you need to include capital letters, numbers and special characters. Even if you can come up with some kind of universal easy-to-remember password, for security reasons it will be dangerous to use it on all sites.

Is it possible to view the password under the asterisks? In fact, there are many options on how this can be done. The easiest way to display the password under the asterisk is to use the capabilities of the browser itself. This does not always work, however, it's worth trying.

Password under the stars in Google Chrom

You need to click on the right of the address entry line"Adjustment and management" (three vertical stripes). At the very bottom you need to go to "Settings", and then at the very bottom of the page you should select "Show Advanced." settings ». In the "Passwords and forms" menu we select "password management". After that, a window will appear with a list of all sites with saved passwords. Then everything is simple: select the desired site and click the "Show" button.

Password under asterisks in Mozilla Firefox

In the upper menu, pressTools -> Settings -> Protection. After that press the button "Saved passwords", and then the item "Display passwords". After confirming such a request, all passwords will be displayed as text!

Password under the stars in Opera

We are looking for the item "Tools" on the top panel andboldly click it with your mouse. In this section, choose "General settings" (for fans of key combinations: press Ctrl + F12), then go to the "Forms" tab. On it there is a button "Passwords". If you click on it, then all sites with passwords are saved in this browser. If you select the checkbox next to the item that is responsible for enabling password management, you can forget about the set of passwords - you just need to click on the icon with the key and the required authorization field will be filled in automatically.

If you know a little HTML, you canthe source code of the page responsible for displaying the asterisk window instead of the password (it looks something like this: input type = 'password' size = '15' name = 'password') in the type = 'password' fragment change the word password to something another (you can just remove some letter) and click on the empty place for the changes to take effect. The asterisks will immediately disappear, but instead text will appear. It is especially convenient to do this with the help of a useful add-on to Mozilla, which is called Firebug.

In addition, to view passwords, you canuse one of specially created for this program: PWShow, Password Viewer, SeePassword, Password Decryption, etc. To download them it is necessary only from the checked up sites at working antivirus differently it is possible to pick up easily a trojan or still any virus.

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