How to view saved passwords from Mozilla Firefox

It is very easy to see the saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox and no need to use any hacking tricks for it. When a newbie Internet user try to log on to any of his account (Orkut,yahoo mail, gmail etc) he may forget to uncheck the option remember my password. One more chance is there, when the remember password option is enabled on the Firefox settings and after log on the user will see a prompt look like below.



Here the newbie user may click on the option Remember as it is the first button shown. So the victims user name and the password will be stored in the Firefox.

Steps to view the saved user names and passwords in Firefox

To see the saved user name and password in Mozilla Firefox follow the steps below.

1. Go to Firefox top menu and click on Tools



2. On the Tools click on Options




Now Firefox options window will be opened. On the Options window we need to click on Security tab.



To see the saved passwords click on the button "Saved Passwords". You may be prompted with one more alert which needs your confirmation. After confirmation you will be able to see the saved user names and passwords.


Precautions to protect our password

The first precaution we need to take is always make sure that our password is not saved in the browser. Take a little bit time to read the alerts comes from the Browser. The last step is always clear browser cache,cookies,passwords etc after the Internet usage. A little bit care can avoid some big disasters.


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