How to retrieve/extract your passwords in Firefox

Oct

2009

How to retrieve/extract your passwords in Firefox

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To make our lives easier, the Mozilla team has stuffed in FireFox a helpful utility whose task is to store all our usernames and passwords in order to accelerate the process of signing-in to websites. With such a nice tool, most people have forgot to write all these sensitive data down, on a piece of paper. So, what happen when you do not remember a password which is stored in your FireFox? Here is a simple, free tool to retrieve your most important passwords from FireFox.

PasswordFox is an extremely interesting utility able to extract and show you your passwords and usernames stored in FireFox. Reading from the website: “PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla FireFox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other FireFox profile.”

This utility work under Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista.

If you want to know more or if you just want to download it, click here.

Tags: Firefox, freeware, security, utility

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5 Comments to “How to retrieve/extract your passwords in Firefox”

Max Says:
October 20th, 2009

Why should I use this program when firefox displays the password from the options.
Web Talk Says:
October 20th, 2009

I feared somebody would write something like this! Teorically speaking, this software also shows other infos such as Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, Signons filename and usernames and passwords of any Firefox profile. Pratically speaking, you are right. Let’s say that this is another way to display all this stuff in an easier way! By the way, it also saves and backups all the passwords to a small XML or HTML file.
Max Says:
October 21st, 2009

I did not want to blame you for this software, simply i did not understand the usefulness of this tool. However as you’ve explained, there are additional functions that may be useful. Congratulations for the blog that I read with pleasure.
Web Talk Says:
October 21st, 2009

Hi Max!
Do not worry! I was just joking, but you made a point! Thanks to your compliments!
Web Talk Says:
October 21st, 2009

By the way Max,
Congrats for your blog. I also noticed you are italian …;)