If you use autofill for your passwords in your browser of choice then you know it's easy to forget what your password is. As it turns out, tech blog Digital Inspiration shows off how to easily reveal these passwords using the developer tools.
Whether you us a password manager like LastPass, or you just let your browser store your passwords, your browser will always block the password box from passersby seeing it by using asterisks. To remove the mask and reveal your password, you just need to do a few things.
Right-click the password box and select "Inspect Element." This brings up the developer console. On the line that starts with "input type=password" change the word "password" to "text." (after you right-click and select ''edit attribute'') This will reveal your password for one time (meaning, if you want to see the password again, you have to follow the procedure again). While you can always pop into your browsers menu screen to look up saved passwords (or into your LastPass profile), this is a far quicker way to see your hidden passwords.
If it's a password managed on Chrome you're trying to ''unasterisk'' (maybe they should put that in a dictionary), then it's even simpler. Wrench > Settings > Show Advanced Settings... > Scroll down to "Passwords and forms" section, and click the "Managed Saved Passwords" link. Now just search for the website you need the password for, select it from the list, then click the blue "Show" button and voila! Password!
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