Sections: Password Recovery Method, Importing a Password File, Revealing a Password
Mozilla's Password Manager is a great tool for logging into dozens of websites without drowning in Post-It Notes, or using one password everywhere. Sometimes, however, you have a lot of passwords in there, and for one reason or another, you need to create a new profile, and wish to take your passwords with you. What do you do? Here's a simple way to recover them.
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The top line is the URL where the information that follows belongs. The second line is the name of the username field. The third line is the username information, encoded in Base64. The fourth line is the name of the password field. The fifth line is the password data, also encoded in Base64. The final line is a period, which tells Mozilla that it has reached the end of stored information for that website, it is just a separator.
Would you rather just bring your old profile's password file into a new profile? Too many passwords to do one by one? Fear not, you can import your old passwordfile into the new profile with just a few simple steps.
Now Mozilla will have all your old passwords stored again.
Mozilla filling in all those passwords automatically can lead to a person forgetting what those passwords were to begin with. There's an easy way to see them without resorting to the in-depth methods above (which is really just intended for saving multiple paswords from al old profile). It's called a Bookmarklet. Bookmarklets are just like regular bookmarks, in that they fit right in with all your regular bookmarks, but they're not just a link to a page. They're a tiny bit of JavaScript that can perform an action on the current page. Jesse Ruderman has created most of my favorite Bookmarklets, which can be found here.
When I was in the middle of writing a bookmarklet to show you passwords in a form, I found out he'd already written a better one. You can right click on the link View Passwords and select "Bookmark This Link" to add it to your Bookmarks, or drag it to your Personal Toolbar or Bookmarks menu. Then, whenever confronted with a form with a password field, click the Bookmark it creates, and it will reveal to you the contents of the password field.
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