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.

We have seen tricks on how to reveal hidden saved passwords in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. In latest versions of Windows hidden fields are shown as bullets instead of asterisks and BulletsPassView is a simple, fast and portable solution for Windows allowing users to reveal previously saved passwords stored behind these bullets/asterisks .

The 100% working free password recovery tool for current operating-system like Windows 7/Vista/2008, BulletsPassView also supports unicode passwords, command-line operation and options to save revealed passwords as text/html/csv/xml file.

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)