How to Recover Saved Passwords in Firefox

Today there are many websites and online services that we all interact with using passwords.

Paypal, eBay, and Gmail are good examples..

Forgotten those Passwords in Mozilla Firefox?

Like other browsers Firefox includes the option to remember your usernames and passwords for these types of websites. So that the next time you visit the website Firefox can "auto fill" these details for you.

However, overtime by using this built in feature you can end up forgetting your passwords!

Fig 1.1 Google Sign In Box

For instance above you can see a screenshot showing Firefox automatically filling in my password for me when I visit Google mail (Gmail).

Nice and handy, but after a while of doing this it is easy for me to forget my password as I am not typing it in on a regular basis!

Reveal the Firefox Saved Passwords

Option #1 - Using Firefox

Unlike Internet Explorer, Firefox does allow you to view your saved passwords it stores.

To do this you will need to:

Tools > Options > Security > Saved Passwords > Show Passwords

Fig 1.2 - Saved Passwords in Firefox

Option #2 - Using a 3rd Party Utility

There is a 3rd party utility called PasswordFox that you can use to reveal those hidden passwords.

Simply download from: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/passwordfox.html 

...and run.

No installation required.

Fig 1.3 - The PasswordFox Utility

This utility works under Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

This utility can cause some Antivirus programs to display a false positive and show it as a Trojan on your computer.

You can read more here:

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/ 

This utility does not actually install itself on your computer so is handy to keep/run on a USB memory stick.

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