We have shared many tricks and tools to reveal hidden passwords behind masks, the simplest of them uses a small javascript bookmark to unearth the hidden password behind asterisk mask across any web-browser and platform supporting Javascript.

Apart from the illegitimate use of hacking someones else's saved password, unmasking hidden password's can be really useful in situations where users have forgotten there passwords saved in web-browser autofill settings. User's can now enjoy this functionality easily by installing the free, Google Chrome extension "Show Password on Focus" which as the name suggests unveils any password hidden behind bullet mask by simply clicking on that field.

Revealing saved passwords behind asterisks from Web-browsers requires use of a simple javascript bookmarklet, but if you happen to have saved account passwords inside desktop software like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Google Talk, Picassa, Google Desktop Search or Gmail Notifier you can now retrieve the saved username/password combination in a single-click using free GooglePasswordDecryptor utility.

Security expert Nagareshwar Talekar's created this awesome utility which takes care of decrypting stored passwords from private encrypted store of these applications allowing users to retrieve saved passwords from multiple accounts with a single-click.

Many times we need to see hidden passwords behind asterisk symbols in firefox and IE, there exist a simple javascript hack to achieve this - simply copy-paste the below code snippet into your webbrowser address bar to see what's inside the password field.

Password Reveal Hack Code (Text file open in new window/tab to see contents)