Most of the browsers hide the password field with an asterisk (*) mainly for security purposes. If your password wasn’t saved for some reason and you’ve numerous and complex passcodes, it’ll be nice to see what’s behind the curtains. 

In Chrome;

  1. Open a website where you’ve saved your password 
  2. Right click on the password field and go to Inspect Element.
  3. An HTML Editor will pop up, look for input and type = “password” and change the password to “text” 
  4. Press enter to save 
An alternative way to get line of  code is; hit Ctrl +F  and type “password” in the search box and press enter…

Firefox;

  1. Right click the password field and click on Inspect Element 
  2. A gray bar will show up with the password field highlighted 
  3. Click on the icon shown to it  or click on Alt+M to open Markup Panel 
  4. The code for the password field will show. Look at the highlighted line and change type password to text.

Note:

This post or article here is mainly for educational purpose, i.e getting to know your saved password on a website you’ve visited before. Any other use is on your own

Conclusion:

This is how to come across a saved password on chrome and Firefox. Enjoy.