Thursday 25 July 2013

How To Reveal Hidden Passwords (Asterisks) In Web Browsers

Passwords are usually shown in the the form of asterisk (*) or the dots on each and every online site. We often wonder that there was a way to change the dots into the real characters. Actually, there is!! This trick is based on inspecting the element code and the slightest of modification.

Here i will be telling you this only about Facebook but once you get to know this method you can do this on any site. And also this method is only applicable on Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox only.





STEPS :


GOOGLE CHROME : 

1. Open google chrome and then open the site (In this case Facebook).

2. Check if there are asterisks or dots in the password box.


3. If there are, right click anywhere between the password and click inspect element.

4. A half element window will open up in it, on bottom side of the element window you will see input type ="password".


5. Select the word "password" here and replace it with the word "text" so that it becomes input type ="text" and press Enter.

6. Now you can see the password instead of dots.



MOZILLA FIREFOX :


1. 
Open Firefox.



2. Download & install the InspectThis Add-on and restart firefox.






3. Download & install the DOM Inspector Add-on and restart firefox again.



4. Open the site (In this case Facebook).




5. Check if there are asterisks or dots in the password box.




6. If there are, right click anywhere between the password and click inspect element.

7. A new window will pop up named DOM Inspector, in this window in the attributes under the value tab  "password" will be written. Double click on password.
8. An Edit Attribute window will pop out, Replace the node value "password" with "text". Click OK.



9. Close the DOM Inspector and you can see the Dots Replaced With Texts.