This page is going to show you how to reveal the password that is behind the asterisks in the Firefox web browser, on a web page that has a login form.

Being able to reveal the password behind the dots or asterisks, on a login form for a web page in Firefox is useful in 2 scenarios:

  1. You forget what your password is for that website and you want to know what your password is.
  2. You want to spy on someone's account so you get them to fill in the log in form. You get them to leave the room somehow before they actually click the submit button to log in and use this trick to reveal what that password is.

To reveal the password that is hidden underneath the asterisks for a log in page in Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Left click your mouse on the password text box to make sure it is selected.
  2. Right click your mouse to reveal the Firefox context menu ...