How to See your Passwords Hidden Under Asterisks

        Web browser hide passwords under asterisk characters for improved security.

Say you are on the Gmail login page and the web browser, as always, has auto-filled the username and passwords fields for you.

This is convenient because you can sign-in to your account with a click but because you have not been typing these saved passwords for a while now, you don’t even remember the Gmail password anymore.

All web browsers, for security reasons, mask the password fields in login forms behind asterisk characters thus making it impossible for passersby to see your secret string.

There’s however an easy workaround that will let you convert those asterisks into the actual password and you don’t need any external utilities or bookmarklets for this. Here’s how:

Reveal the Hidden Password

Right-click the password field and then choose “Inspect Element.” This will open the document inspector window and all you have to do is replace the word “password” with “text” as shown in the video above.

What we have done is changed the type of the <input> field from “password” to “text” and hence the password is revealed as the text input fields are never masked.

Also, the above demo was created in Google Chrome but you can use it across all browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. In the case of IE, press F12 to open the Developer Tools window and then press Ctrl+B to activate the element selection mode. ↓

Source :-  labnol.org

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Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective (antimattercollective.org) for whom he is a writer, director, producer, and sound designer, and he has worked in various capacities with companies such as Target Margin, 500 Clown, and Court Theatre. Previously he has written criticism for nytheatre.com. He studied classics, theater, and media at the University of Chicago.

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