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Expose saved passwords with Firebug

I’m filing this one under useful tricks. If you’ve got a password field the browser has saved and you can’t recall the text (and you’re too lazy to check the browser password save dialogue), fire up Firebug and press inspect. Target the password field and click. It will pull the HTML up into the screen. Click on type=”password” and change password to “text”. This should display the password in plaintext.

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