How to see the password instead of the points: instruction and recommendations

When you save a password in the browser, often a dot or asterisks appear on the authorization page of a service. But what if you need to see symbols instead of asterisks? How to see the password instead of points? The task is not the most difficult, so problems in most cases should not arise even for beginners.

How can I find the password in Chrome settings?

To date, in the war of browsers (this, by the way, is quite an official term that has been used since the 1990s to denote the rivalry between the major platforms), Google Chrome is surely leading, that's why it is worth starting to search for answers to the question of how Instead of points to see the password. It's very easy to understand.

How can I see the password in the Google Chrome settings instead of the points? In the browser from Google, you can see the saved password as follows:

1. It is necessary to open the main menu of the platform and go to "Settings" (three parallel lines to the right of the address bar).
2. In the opened menu, click the item of the same name.
3. In the next window you need to go down to the bottom and select additional functions.
4. Then you should find the category "Passwords", in which you select the item "Manage passwords".
5. The following window will display a list of sites for which the login data was ever saved. To see the password directly, click on "Display passwords".

How to find out the password under the asterisks in Mozilla Firefox?

For Mozilla Firefox, the instruction to display passwords in place of asterisks is similar. The user needs to click on the three-line icon ("Open menu"), parallel to each other, in the upper corner (right) under the tabs, and then select the gear ("Settings"). The same option: click on "Tools" in the menu bar, and then select the bottom item - "Settings".

In the opened tab, click on the "Protection" line and in the "Logins" section click on the "Saved Logins" button. The window will display the sites, user names, last modified dates and page visits. If you click "Show passwords" and confirm your intentions, the saved passwords will also be displayed next to the logins.

Instructions for the Opera browser: how to find the required password in the settings?

How can I see the password in the Opera browser instead of the points? Find a previously saved password here is also easy. It is enough to select the item "Settings" (with a gear) in the menu. Then you need to go to the "Security" tab and in the "Passwords" click "Manage saved passwords". If you click on the button, a new window with a list of sites, logins and passwords stored in the browser will be displayed. To see symbols instead of points, you need to highlight the necessary password (click) and click "Show". Similarly, you can hide the password.

How do I see the password in iOS instead of the points?

In iOS, the passwords are in the iCloud Keychain, which synchronizes the data for authorization between websites and devices. So, how to see the password instead of the iOS points? You should open the iPhone home screen settings and scroll to the Safari line. In the basic settings section, you need to find the "Passwords and Autocomplete" tab, and then "Saved passwords". The system will prompt you for the lock password, then the list of logins will be displayed, and to view the password, click on the corresponding line.

How to display the password by editing the HTML-code of the page?

You can display passwords instead of asterisks and without having to enter the browser settings or the iCloud Keychain. Then how to see the password in "Classmates" instead of points? The way works, by the way, not only for social networks (Odnoklassniki, FaceBook, VKontakte, Twitter, and others), but it is also applicable to other Internet services where authorization is required.

So, to see symbols instead of asterisks, you need to right-click on the password field and select the item "View Item Code". In the window with the page code that appeared after clicking on the above-mentioned item, the line with the password will be highlighted. Next, select "Edit as HTML" and manually replace the text in the element type = "password" with type = "text". After this manipulation, you should press the function key F2 and instead of the points or asterisks, the symbols in the password field will be displayed.

So, to display characters instead of points it's enough to make just a couple of clicks. You can view the necessary information both in the browser settings (the instructions for the several most common platforms are described above), and directly on the page with asterisks. In the latter case, you have to edit the code of the web page, but it's very simple. So, finding a previously saved password will not be difficult even for an uninformed user in technical matters.