Mozilla Firefox-How to View Your Saved Passwords

Mozilla Firefox-How to View Your Saved Passwords

Mozilla Firefox is a very good and one of the world’s three most popular web browsers and like other web browsers it also saves passwords as per the user instruction. While you login to a site for the first time and enter your ID and pass ward soon after submitting the data a message on the top left corner of the page will appear like this asking you to remember pass word. If you want to save your password for that particular site you can click “Remember Password” and the browser will save it for you –

Mozilla Firefox-How to View Your Saved Passwords

 

 If you want to save the password for that site. then click “Remember Password” and your pass word will be saved permanently. Two more options “Never remember password for this site” and “Not Now” are also available. These will appear by clicking the drop down button and you may proceed as per your choice.

How to view saved password In Mozilla Firefox

You can view your saved password at any time in need, as if you have forgotten it or for some other reason. To view your saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox, click Tools>Options, now a window like this will appear(In new version of Mozilla Firefox press F-10 to display old menu temporarily to view “Tools”) –

 

 Firefox tools Screen

Now click “Security” and next click “Saved Passwords”. 

Firefox saved password screen

Now a list of all the websites(List of websites only without Password) for which you have saved the pass words will appear indicating the website’s URLs and your user name.

Firefox saved password display screen

Here you can view all your saved pass words by clicking “Show Passwords” .Mozilla Firefox will ask you “Are you sure you wish to show your passwords?” 

pass words will appear indicating the website’s URLs and your user name.

By clicking yes a window containing a list of all the websites for which you have saved the pass words will appear indicating the website’s URLs and your user name and saved pass words.
Precautions before saving Passwords in Mozilla Firefox

Though it may prove useful some times when you forget your password but it is much risky. Remember gravity of risk is greater than advantage.

Never save passwords of your bank transactions or other Important website. For this purpose you click “Never remember password for this site” while Mozilla Firefox first time asks for it. Mozilla Firefox will never ask to save password for that site again.

 

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