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HOW TO REVEAL HIDDEN ASTERISKS PASSWORDS IN WEB BROWSERS

Remember the specific situation, signing in your account with a just single click because web browser is saving all your passwords in your case. We know this can be convenient nevertheless since you’re not typing your passwords any-more,

eventually you’ll forget your password in a few days. For security reasons, the password field in all browsers will be masked along with “asterisks” which won’t allow any next person (even you) to see the original entered password. But, what if you wish to reveal the string powering the asterisks? There's actually few workaround with regard to revealing the original passwords behind the asterisk and within the entire length of this write-up we’ll become discussing a number of known solutions to reveal the characters behind the asterisks in a variety of browsers.

Reveal Passwords Behind Asterisks or Dots in Different Web Browsers:

Google Chrome:

Starting with Google chrome, the simplest way to reveal an original passwords guiding the asterisk is usually using built in Inspect element feature from the browser.

·         You just need to right click on the password field in the browser where you will get an option "Inspect Element". 

After clicking on it, "Web Inspector" will certainly open out and there you will see some code that's basically Html code and you just need to replace the "password" word with "text" word and it also will reveal the language behind your asterisks.

There’s another way using JavaScript which can be quite easy and quick as compared to above method. Just open a site that makes it possible forallows users to login and after typing the password, just enter the following JavaScript code in the address bar.

Javascript: alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value);

after entering the above code inside the address bar, press enter and it will appear a pop up a window with your password written on it.

Mozilla Firefox:

The Next most common browser is "Mozilla Firefox".

·         The chrome's "Web Inspector" trick is also applicable in Firefox.

·          Open a site that asks for login (like Facebook), click on the password field in the browser where you're going to get an option "Inspect Element". After hitting it, "Web Inspector" will open out and there you can see some code which is basically Html code and you simply need to replace the "password" expression with "text" word and it will reveal the words behind the asterisks as shown in screenshot below.

Aside from this, there’s a different way that is quite easy and quick as in comparison to above technique. For that you’ve to create a bookmark while using following JavaScript code as URL from it.

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("Password is:\n\n"+s);else alert("No passwords");})();

after saving this as a bookmark, open a niche site that will allow users to be able to login and also typing the password, open the saved bookmark by clicking on it and t will pop up a window with your password written on it.

Opera:

Next comes the "Opera" in that you can use "Dragonfly", which is an in built tool, to reveal the words behind the asterisks just like chrome's "Web Inspector". Open a site that asks for login (like
Facebook), right click on the password field in the browser and select "Inspect Element" option. After clicking on it, "Dragon Fly" will open out and you’ll see some code which is basically Html code and you just need to replace the "password" word with "text" word and it will reveal the words behind the asterisks as shown in screen shot below.

Internet Explorer:

In the same manner you can apply this trick on Internet explorer. First of all open any site (Gmail in our case) that allows user login. Now for bringing out “developer tools” press thef12 key. A new window will be opened and press Ctrl+B to enable selection of elements. After that go to login page and select the password field, doing this will take you to the password field’s code in developer window (highlighted by yellow). Now, you just need to replace the "password" word with "text" word and it will remove the asterisk mask in the password field, see screenshot below.

Apart from this, there’s another way which is quite quick and easy as compared to above method. Just open a site that allows users to login and after typing the password, just enter the following JavaScript code in the address bar.

alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value);

After entering the above code in the address bar, press enter and it will pop up a window with your password written on it. (See pic below)