Retreive forgotten firefox passwords


	Retreive forgotten firefox passwords

chrisfeola

11-20-2007 9:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/812525f4-dd6c-4776-8860-512d2273cf5c/18EE33CC-0DA4-4802-B070-409DBEC79996/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://aksn1p3r.blogspot.com/2007/07/firefox-asterisk-revealer.html" href="http://aksn1p3r.blogspot.com/2007/07/firefox-asterisk-revealer.html" style="font-size: 11px;">aksn1p3r.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://aksn1p3r.blogspot.com/2007/07/firefox-asterisk-revealer.html"><P>This is, by far, the best snippet of javascript code I've seen in action, EVER !!!<BR /><SPAN id="fullpost"><BR /><DIV>I usually choose the "Remember" option for logins in Firefox because I just can't remember them all and I rarely make backups, so today I needed to use an uncapped account, but the password was wrong.</DIV><BR /><DIV>I had 2 options, waste my time and phone Telkom or hack it wide open...</DIV><BR /><DIV>*SIGH*</DIV><BR /><DIV>Google search, usually the only solution database for me, displayed some links that looked so random that I almost gave up but then one just stood out from within those blue results, for it was quite a current post.</DIV><BR /><DIV>You can read more at <A href="http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/07/13/easily-show-the-contents-of-password-fields/">Raymond.CC</A> but heres the gist of it:</DIV><BR /><DIV>Whilst on a page with any saved password that is masked in asterisks, paste the following code into the Firefox address bar and hit enter. A popup will appear with the password for that login page.</DIV><BR /><INPUT type="text" size="99" value="javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password") s += f[i].value + "\n"; } } if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();" name="textarea" /><BR /></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/18EE33CC-0DA4-4802-B070-409DBEC79996/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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