Each and every browser has a password manager that is used to store all the passwords for various sites that we log into. However, this option works only if we make our browser to remember the password for a particular site. This is done to save the time required for typing the passwords manually. Mozilla Firefox is one of the most common browsers used to surf the net. This browser has various advanced options to retrieve saved password. Most of the times, we use saved passwords and forget them after a certain duration of time. Retrieval of passwords from Mozilla Firefox can be done by following the below mentioned steps,
Step 1: Open the Firefox browser and go to the drop-down menu on the right side.
Step 2: As shown in the figure below, go to the Options and as the menu unfolds further, click on ‘Options’.
Step 3: A pop-up window will open after clicking the ‘Options’ button. There are many options in the pop-up window but we have to click on Security in order to retrieve the password.
Step 4: In this step after clicking on security, you have to click on the ‘Saves Passwords…’ button as shown in the figure.
Step 5: After clicking on ‘Saved Passwords’ a new pop up window will appear as shown below. In this window, we have to click on ‘Show Passwords’ button so that all our saved passwords can be shown to us.
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Step 6: In this last step, a pop-up window again appears asking for the permission to show all the passwords. If we click on ‘Yes’, then the browser will show us our passwords and if we click on NO, then we the process will be canceled and we have to repeat the whole process again whenever password retrieval is required.
These are the steps that can be followed to retrieve saved password or a forgotten password from Mozilla Firefox and the steps should be executed sequentially in the above-mentioned order to get the result. Another important thing is that one should never save any important password in any browser as the browser can be hacked and the passwords can be retrieved very easily. So, be careful while saving and retrieving the passwords.