Firefox How to view your saved password
Posted by in Internet, Tips And Tricks March 7, 2012 2 Comments

In Firefox, when you access certain site on internet which requires you to input user name and password at login page, after logon you will see a popup dialog displaying on the top left of Firefox.This popup allows you to remember the input password. If you click on “Remember Password”, the next time you access again this site, you do not need to input user name and password.

Below is sample of login page of google mail.

Google Mail login page

Google Mail login page

Popup displays after logon

Popup remember password

Popup remember password

On beautiful day :) for certain reason, you have to surf internet on your friend’s computer or public computer, at that time you want to access the site which you usually do on your computer ,however you do not remember the account.Just because your account is stored by Firefox, so you do not keep it in your mind. So how can you recovery it?

Now, I would like to introduce to your two ways of getting saved password.One is supported by Firefox, the other is used PasswordFox from Nirsoft.
Personally warning : After reading this article, you will find that easy to get saved password.So I think you should not remember password when use Firefox in public computers.Just keep really unimportant passwords in this browser on your computer for security.

1. Following step by step in Firefox web browser

In the Firefox menu go to Tools, then Options

Menu tool > option

Menu tool > option

On the dialog “Option“, choose Security tab, then click on “Saved Passwords” button

Dialog Option > Securirty tab

Dialog Option > Securirty tab

On dialog “Saved Passwords”, click on “Show Passwords” to show hidden column “Password”

Dialog Saved Passwords

Dialog Saved Passwords

When confirm dialog displays, Click on “Yes” button to show hidden column “Password”

Confirm dialog to view passowd column

Confirm dialog to view passowd column

2. Using PasswordFox from Nirsoft

Download PasswordFox
After downloading, extract this file and run PasswordFox.exe, you will see the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox

Password Fox program from Nirsoft

Password Fox program from Nirsoft

  • http://4rapiddev.com/ Hoan Huynh

    Thanks Quynh!

    If you’re on Google Chrome, view saved passwords here: http://4rapiddev.com/tips-and-tricks/view-saved-passwords-in-google-chrome/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AJ4DPPIMW46KZTI7XFX7QN2ANM James Bob

     I usually use Password Recovery Bundle. It can recover passwords from most popular applications.  http://www.top-password.com/password-recovery-bundle.html