9 October 2012

View Saved/Cached Passwords in Web Browsers

Published at | 10/09/2012 Categories: ,


As you all know when a user entered his username and password in the submit box of log in form in a web browser, and signed in to his/her account (like Yahoo, Google, Facebook etc.) the password will be shown as stars or asterisks. The browsers usually save passwords in a temporary memory location (cache) so next time the users don’t need to enter it again and can retrieve very quickly. If you want to view these passwords as an actual character but not star or asterisks, I’ll show you a simple trick to see the saved passwords in any web browser. You should know this trick only works if the user saved his/her user name and password. Let say you want to see someone’s Yahoo password, follow these steps:

1. In the Yahoo log in page or any other page that you want, select (highlight) the password with your mouse.

2. In Firefox or Google Chrome, right-click on the selected password and from the drop down menu, choose Inspect Element.

          Firefox                           Google Chrome



In Internet Explorer, press F12 or from the Settings go to the Developer tools. 

The Developer tools or Inspect panel will open at the bottom of the page.

3. Look for the tag

<input id=”passwd” type=”password” tabindex=”2” name=”passwd”>

Or something likes that. If you were not able to find it, use Ctrl + F and search for the words

type=”password”
 
Firefox


Google Chrome

In the Internet Explorer, select Find, then Select element by click. After that you have to click on the password to select it.

 Internet Explorer

4. In front of type, double-click on the word password and press the Delete key on the keyboard. 


Firefox


Google Chrome


Internet Explorer


Hit the Enter key and you will able to see the password.
  
Firefox

Google Chrome

Internet Explorer

5. To go back to default view you can close the Developer tools panel and Refresh the page.
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