When saving the password in the browser, the dots or asterisks are often displayed on the authorization page of a service. But what to do when instead of asterisks you need to see symbols? How to see the password instead of dots? The task is not the most difficult, so in most cases problems should not arise even for beginners.
How do I find the password I need in Chrome settings?
Today, in the browser war (by the way, this is quite an official term that has been used since the 1990s to mean rivalry between the main platforms) Google Chrome is confidently leading, so it’s from it that you should begin to search for answers to the question of how instead of dots, see the password. It’s very easy to understand.
How to see the password in Google Chrome settings instead of dots? In a browser from Google, you can see the saved password as follows:
- You need to open the main menu of the platform and go to "Settings" (three parallel lines to the right of the address bar).
- In the menu that opens, click the item of the same name.
- In the next window, you need to go down to the bottom and select additional functions.
- Then you should find the category “Passwords”, in which select “Manage passwords”.
- The next window will display a list of sites for which login data has ever been saved. To see the password directly, click on "Display Passwords".
How to find out the password under asterisks in Mozilla Firefox?
For Mozilla Firefox, the instructions for displaying passwords instead of asterisks are similar. The user needs to click on the icon with three lines ("Open menu") parallel to each other, in the upper corner (right) under the tabs, and then select the gear ("Settings"). A similar option: click on “Tools” in the menu bar, and then select the lower item - “Settings”.
In the tab that opens, click on the "Protection" line and in the "Logins" section, click on the "Saved Logins" button. The window will display sites, usernames, dates of the last change and visits to pages. If you click "Display passwords" and confirm your intentions, the saved passwords will be displayed next to the logins accordingly.
Instructions for the Opera browser: how to find the right password in the settings?
How to see the password in Opera browser instead of dots? Finding a password you saved earlier is also easy. It is enough to select the menu item "Settings" (with gear). Then you need to go to the “Security” tab and in the “Passwords” section click “Manage saved passwords”. If you click on the button, a new window will be displayed with a list of sites, logins and passwords stored in the browser. To see symbols instead of dots, you need to select the required password with the mouse pointer (click) and click “Show”. Similarly, you can hide the password.
How to see the password in iOS instead of dots?
In iOS, passwords are in the iCloud Keychain, which synchronizes authorization data between websites and devices. So how to see the password instead of iOS dots? Open the iPhone’s home screen settings and scroll to the Safari line. In the main settings section, you need to find the tab “Passwords and autofill”, and then “Saved passwords”. The system will prompt you to enter a lock password, after which a list of logins will be displayed, and to view the password, click on the corresponding line.
How to display the password by editing the HTML code of the page?
You can display the password instead of asterisks without having to enter the browser settings or the iCloud Keychain. Then how to see the password in Odnoklassniki instead of dots? The method works, by the way, not only for social networks (Odnoklassniki, Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, and others), but also applies to other Internet services where authorization is required.
So, to see characters instead of asterisks, you need to right-click on the password field and select "View item code". In the window with the page code that opens after clicking on the above item, a line with a password will be highlighted. Next, select “Edit as HTML” and manually replace the text in the type = “password” element with type = “text”. After this manipulation, press the F2 function key and instead of dots or asterisks, the symbols will be displayed in the password field.
So, to display characters instead of dots, just make a couple of clicks. You can view the necessary information both in the browser settings (the instructions for several of the most common platforms are described above) and directly on the page with asterisks. In the latter case, you will have to edit the code of the web page, however it is very simple. So, finding a password saved earlier will not be difficult even for a user unaware of technical issues.