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given that you write
“Remembered I said it was impossible to view the hidden password under asterisks in Firefox? Well I was wrong. Turns out that there’s a way to do it. No software required, the result is immediate and it is shockingly easy to reveal the hidden password”

it’s obvious you didn’t figure this programming hack out yourself.

Why don’t you provide the source for your tip? (people could google or read lots of books looking for it, but that’s besides the point)

It’s pretty bad to only give people access to things after you’ve watered it down.

It’s not a decent motivation to want people to be reliant on you.

Good tip.
works even when its pre typed in or not lol :)

This wouldn’t work for me in Firefox 2.0.0.4, but it did work in the latest IE, and the windows version of Safari.

I remember this was a firefox exploit. BUt u turned the exploit into pretty good manner to read and understand. That’s coool

Eliena Andrews

This script comes originally from Jesse Ruderman’s bookmarklets site: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html
This works in all modern browsers, not just Firefox.

There are other useful tools there, many of which work in all browsers like this one.

The Web Developer extension for Firefox already does this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

You can also just view the source code according to this post:
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?4,16384,17849#msg-17849

This isn’t a hack and there’s a much more conscise way to write the code:

javascript:alert(document.getElementById(‘Passwd’).value);

It works in both firefox & IE (and likely all browsers that support javascript)

All that’s going on here is that you’re using javascript to get the value of an element (in my example — by the id of the tag) and in the verbose example above — by tag type (password). )

woopee.. A hack would be a scenario where someone used an XSS hole to inject javascript like this into the page where it would get the value and then — additional javascript would forward the value to a remote webpage tha’ts waiting to read the value from a query string.

why is it that astericks come up when passwords are typed?is it some sort of security feature or what?

hi, i’ve been reading posts here on raymond.cc and find it very interesting though i tried some but failed coz im not good in pc’s.
i just like to access my husband’s laptop to know what he has saved in his computer but it has password. need to know his laptop’s password the easiest way.

please help and email me the procedure.

thanks a lot

The master password is still useful, since passwords dont appear until you enter it, so the “hack” has no effect.

This is a great site. Thank you for your information. I THANK YOU I SALUTE YOU IT,S A AMZING SITE.

Puts cara, pra que um codigo deste tamanho so para visualizar isso?
Da pra fazer isso com uma linha, e fazer funciona em qualquer navegador..

E volto a repetir, esse codigo que foi postado, tem muita coisa inutil, não precisa criar uma função pra isso..

Thanks you so much – you make day brighter!

hi please how can i know my password i forgot it and i dont know how i we do it and also i dont want to change the password

If it’s yahoo password. What next to do ?

wow man
i love u
thankssssssssssss this is amazing , i forgot my pass but i had it saved on my desktop , this way i find it

Realise this is old, but slight tweak to the code, stops it showing an alert, and just shows the relevent password box as plain text… might be handy if thers more than one password on the page…

javascript:(function(){var F,j,f,i; 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") f[i].type = "text"; }}})();

On facebook, in opera nine, it comes back there are no stored passwords on this page.

You are the best..!! no word…for you.. Perfect Hacker.. and perfect…. Geek…
1 word..
AWESOME!!!

superb one!

but there is another thing,,this works only if we type the password,,how to see unknown passwords???

superb article..

Discovery is the new name for ‘Raymond’..

Keep going.

I like this article.

nice trick man.well is it possible to read my secret answer in gmail coz they show them in asterisk. i dont remember my answer.i tried the above script too in firefox and IE but cudnt get through.can u help me out…thnx in advance .

Awesome!!!! I just opened up an age old gmail account if it werent for this it wudve been lost forever

Thank you it s very nice

Good,

But FireBug’s script feature enables a js-dev to see password as well.

Nice effort though.

Ohhhhhh thanks man, it’s awesome! :)

Thatz great man!!!!!!!!!! Excellant job….Congrats……

Congrats man…. you are the man :)

I figured out how to do this without an alert box popping up. check it out :-)

http://blog.amwmedia.com/post/3043988338/reveal-hidden-passwords-in-all-major-browsers

best one
thanks!

Very nice….
I got another solution. I have done using firebug.

Step 1: just find password field id (Ex – password)
Step 2: find submit button and add little javascript as follows:
Login
Step 3: just click Login
All done

where will i paste it?
under the address bar??????????

this is completely useless if you use firefox…

you dont need an addon. you don’t need a script. this is built in if the password is a saved passwor

just go tools>options>security>saved password>show passwords…

this will show you every single saved password for every single website you have saved a password for…

hi please sorry so i want a financia supor in my schooling

Just a heads up: this also works on the newest version of Safari and Chrome (at least on my Mac)