Here’s a little line of javascript that will work in Firefox to reveal the * characters in an auto populated password field. Just paste the following code into your browser address bar whenever you see an asterisked form field and press enter..
javascript:var els = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var x=0; x<els.length; x++){ if(els[x].type.toLowerCase() == 'password' ){ var test = els[x].type = 'text';}}
Useful if if you want to access your sisters email account you forget a password that gets auto filled.
Doh, that looks so easy to implement. I didn’t even know that you could reverse it like that!
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Daaaaang that’s tight, does it work on Internet Explorer? I wonder if this is a bug or they just don’t think its that big of a deal.
Is this a flaw in Firefox? I’d be interested to see if, and when, this gets plugged by Mozilla.
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wow…
it works!!!
wonderfull
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Wow… that’s a pretty good one…. very shocking, but pretty cool…. like commenter above… i do hope it gets plugged soon.
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Hi Andy, I think this is a great share…
I would like to ask your permission to translate this post into Bahasa Indonesia and post it in my blog. I promise to put link to this post as a source.
regards,
Darkum Sudiro.
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I use Forms -> Show Passwords in the Web Developer extension to do the same thing. Useful when you have passwords saved for a site but can’t remember what it is.
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This is truly amazing. Thank you. Very useful, I can assure you.
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Doesn’t work in IE, though, does it?
That’s where I have most of my forgotten paswords. Sigh!
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Nice- I DO hope its plugged soon. I don’t really have much use for this sort of thing but it was simple.
Thank you very much for the great information..
Great information, Thank You for sharing……….
Thanks for the useful information
HEH! why Java so cOol with their script! damn…thanks for sharing this! heheh finaly i can hek my sis email
Wow!!I loved it and wrote this on my log too..
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You sure thats a good password?
Kinda simple I would think.
Thats a sweet little snippet of code though, thanks.
jeff: lol, I changed it to that before I posted this so I could use it as an example. I wonder how many people have tried to log into my account?!
works like wonder
thank you Andy
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aspr: you’re welcome! I just had to use it myself again
This is great information. I don’t know how many times I’ve had a “brain fart” when trying remember my passwords. I try to keep a log of them, but I always forget a few of them.Luzs last blog post..Earn some easy money with Bux.to – Join Today!
Neat! But in tools, options, under the security tab you can see them anyway so neat…!
ddd: you know, it’s having a blog that helps me get to find out nuggets like this from people like you.
I had no idea they were there for the gandering! haha, silly me!
shame you’re anonymous, I woulda linked to you in a new post about passwords!
Nice one Andy. I remember writing a similar windows app to do that.
back in the days
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