Mar 31, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: canisbos
You can convert the password field to a plain text field, which will reveal the password behind the asterisks. To do so, you will need to use your browser's web inspector. The following is the procedure for Safari; the steps are similar in Google Chrome.
- Right-click the password field and select 'Inspect Element' in the context menu. This will open the web inspector and highlight the HTML tag for the password field.
- The highlighted line should contain something like this:
<input type="password" name="something">
(Don't worry if it doesn't look exactly like that. As long as the HTML tag contains the type="password" part, you can proceed.) - Double-click the word "password" following "type=". This will let you edit the text.
- Replace the word "password" with the word "text", and press Enter. Now the tag should like this:
<input type="text" name="something">
If this seems like a lot of work, an altenative is to install and use a browser extension that will reveal passwords when you do something like move the mouse over them or click inside them. For Safari, one such extension is ShowPass; similar extensions exist for Firefox and Google Chrome.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. I used Safari 5.0.4.]
