See Password behind Asterisk in Web Browser

There are several passwords one needs to remember like, for your account, the wifi password, password for hidden files and so on. But each time the popup shows or the web browser asks you to enter your password, all you see when you type the darn thing is a bunch of dots.Even in the modem configuration page, the password for the account is a just a bunch of dots.

This post will tell you a way to actually see those passwords. Now, you would be thinking this is crazy, why would I want to do that. Beats me! I don't know why you want to use this trick but you are here none the less.

So, here is the how:

• Go to the page that requires the password
• Type in the password
• Right click in the password field and select Inspect Element

• Find the line which reads something like type = password

• Change password to text and press Enter
  
• Voila! You can now see the password

It was that simple. So go ahead and try it out.

NOTE: I have only tried it out using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. If you are using some other web browser, then the trick may need to be modified a little. (Sorry, can't tell you the details of every web browser present on the planet on such a little post, now can I)

As Always thanks for reading and please comment.