The password is used to log into your VKontakte page. We have already discussed the procedure for restoring it - .

Let’s imagine a situation: we have forgotten the credentials for the page, but we don’t want to change them. We want to use the old ones. How to view and find out your password on VK, in this case? There are a couple of tricks. Now I will show them to you.

Where is the password control unit located?

You need to look for it in the “Settings” section. Go there.

Here you will see the "Password" block.

If you click on the “Change” button, a password change form will open.

Here you will need to provide the old data and also enter the new password twice. When finished, press the button "Change password".

But we haven't solved the problem. It is impossible to view the old password in this form. How to be?

How to find out the VK password using a browser

Let's do this using Mozilla Firefox as an example. Open the menu and click “Settings”.

Then go to the “Protection” tab. Here you need to click the button "Saved logins".

A form will open with all the saved data. In the search bar type:

All logins for which there is data will be shown. Now click the button "Display passwords".

You will be asked to confirm the transaction. Click Yes. An additional field “Passwords” will appear in the form. It will display your login information.

How to find out another person's VK password

Still the same meaning. If you logged into another page from your computer and clicked "Save password", then you can watch it without any problems. The method is described above.

Video lesson: how to find out the password for a VK page

Conclusion

From all of the above, we can draw the following conclusion. If you log into your VK page from someone else’s computer, do not use the “Save password” function. This can lead to hacking and theft of your account (see).

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Active use of the Internet involves visiting various sites, many of which have the ability to register. Mail, online stores, blogs, forums and so on - on these and other sites you have to register in order to buy a product, take part in a discussion or access content. When registering, you must specify a password, which can easily “fly out of your head” over time. To avoid having to constantly remember passwords for websites, browsers offer to save them if this option is enabled. The password is stored in the browser cache, and the user can view it if necessary. We will look at how to do this in different browsers in this article.

How to view saved passwords in Google Chrome

The most common browser for computers is Google Chrome. If the user logs into it using his Google account, then passwords will be saved not only in the browser on the device where they were entered, but also in the cloud, which will allow them to be accessed from other browser clients. For example, by saving a website password in Google Chrome on a computer, the user will not have to enter it on a smartphone or tablet if they also use Google Chrome with the same account.

To view saved passwords in Google Chrome, you need to do the following:

How to view saved passwords in Opera

Opera is also a widely used browser. It is based on Chromium, which means that the password saving system in it is almost identical to that used in Google Chrome. To view saved passwords in Opera, you need to do the following:

How to view saved passwords in Yandex Browser

Yandex Browser, popular in Russia, is an almost complete copy of the Chrome browser. Viewing saved passwords in it occurs in a similar way:

How to view saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox

Unlike the browsers listed above, Mozilla Firefox is not based on Chromium, and this browser has a number of significant differences. A significant drawback from a security point of view is that viewing passwords in Mozilla does not require entering your Windows account password, unlike all other browsers.

To view passwords saved in Mozilla Firefox, you need to do the following:

Note: An interesting feature of the list of saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox is the presence of the “Last Used” column. It displays the last time you logged into a specific site using a specific username and password.

How to View Saved Passwords in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer are built-in browsers in various versions of the Windows operating system. The saved passwords from them are synchronized with the system itself, so you need to view them not in the browser, but in the system folder. To view saved passwords in Microsoft browsers, do the following:

Note: In order for the site password to be displayed, you will need to enter the password for your Windows account.

How to view saved passwords in browsers using third-party programs

There are a large number of applications available on the Internet that allow you to view saved passwords in browsers on your computer. It is worth noting that such programs allow you to view passwords saved in browsers without entering your Windows account password.

Here's where passwords are stored, and not just for Contact in Mozilla:

I often find them there along with logins from some... not only blondes, but also from blondes, as well as from forgetful, careless and other users who value the convenience of auto-substitution above their own computer security.

Yes, they themselves often ask for this. Well, how can you not help a good person? The main thing is not to forget to remind that the admin does not drink chocolates.

(I’m kidding! There’s nowhere to put champagne and cognac, but they carry everything and carry it, just like the Magi bringing gifts)

You can ( without forgetting about the negative attitude of antiviruses towards this software, and acting at your own peril and risk) try the Multi Password Recovery (MPR) program. It is relatively inexpensive ($19.95), although you can also search for cracks on the Internet. I haven’t explored all the new possibilities, but the list alone is worth it. I used older versions.

Considering that VKontakte users use their own browser, I will assume that the most popular is the Chrome browser from Google.

This browser stores the passwords you enter (if, of course, the function of saving them is enabled), including VKontakte, in a folder in the following path (there are some differences depending on the operating system of your PC):

• in Windows XP:
• Vista:
• 7 - ka and 8 - ka:



• on Mac:

Passwords are stored in the Login Data folder:



If you don't want Chrome to remember (save) your passwords, you can disable saving them:

You can find passwords on your computer in your browser, but only if you have a checkbox in the settings next to the auto-save passwords item. In order to see the passwords, open the browser settings, and then go to security, here the passwords will be.

Passwords for your account of any social network, and indeed any website, are in the folder of your browser, unless, of course, you have enabled saving passwords in the settings. I strongly recommend that you do not save passwords in your browser. This way you won’t forget them, and to some extent protect yourself from intruders.

If the browser through which you logged into the VKontakte social network is configured in such a way that it saves all entered passwords, then you should look for the VK password in the browser folder itself.

To be more precise, for example, Mozilla Firefox assumes the path

Depends on what browser you have. In general, all passwords that you use on social networks and on the Internet are remembered by your browser. You can disable remembering your password in your browser settings. If you wish to delete all passwords and data, simply delete the history. For example from Google:



Also, if you do not want your passwords to be hacked, try not to save your passwords when you are not at home, then the system will not remember them. A programmer friend once told me about this. If you save it once, you will immediately be able to access your accounts.

Look in your browser settings, all data is stored there. A convenient way to find out someone else's password when you come to visit. Therefore, never remember passwords, or even better, use two browsers if you share one computer. Clear your browsing history and don't check the box to remember it

Browsers, email clients, and other programs often offer to save passwords. This is very convenient: I saved it and forgot, sometimes in the literal sense of the word. But what if you need to change your browser, reinstall the system, or simply log in from a different computer? It turns out that browsers store passwords very unreliably. There are a lot of recovery programs, and of course, on someone else’s machine they will work no worse than on yours.

Browsers

The browser often stores dozens or even hundreds of passwords. It’s clear that if you don’t use one password for all occasions (and this is not the best idea), remembering passwords for all sites and forums can be problematic.

If you have forgotten an important password and don’t want to rack your brains, download and install the WebBrowserPassView program. You will be surprised: it will easily extract passwords from Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox and Yandex Browser, and the latest versions are supported. Personally, I tested this program with IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera - in no case did it fail.

Before running WebBrowserPassView, it is advisable to disable your antivirus, as some will complain that it is malware. The recovery result is shown in the screenshot. Don't blame me, but I covered up the Password column and the User Name part.

Select the passwords you want to remember and run the command File - Save Selected Items. The selected passwords will be saved to a plain text file in the following format:

===================================================== URL: website Web Browser: Firefox 32+ User Name: user Password: password Password Strength: Very Strong User Name Field: Password Field: Created Time: 07/09/2015 21:15:16 Modified Time: 07/09/2015 21:15:16 =====================================================

And of course, the program is suitable for retrieving passwords on someone else’s machine. If you have local access or remote access - via RDP or TeamViewer, then getting passwords will be easy.

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Question from a user

Hello.

Can you tell me if I can somehow find out my password in the browser? The fact is that I have the Firefox browser installed on my computer - and it sets the login and password for one site automatically and everything goes in. But I can’t access this site on a laptop, because... I don't remember the password.

Is it possible to view a password hidden behind asterisks in Firefox on a computer (it is not possible through the browser settings)?

Good day!

All modern browsers remember the sites you visited, the passwords and logins that you entered on them (at least the browser, when entering some authorization data, always offers to save them). This is done in order to speed up your work: so as not to manually enter the password every time, and not waste time on this.

In this article I will show how you can find this data in the settings of several popular browsers (and, of course, use it ☺).

You might be interested in an article on how to view your browsing history, even if it has been deleted -

How to view all logins and passwords saved in the browser

Chrome

Settings address: chrome://settings/passwords

Copy the link above into the address bar of your Chrome browser and follow it. A settings window should open with all passwords and website addresses opposite them. By the way, here you can also set whether to use the automatic login function to sites (auto-substitution of password and login in the authorization form).

Chrome - passwords, logins, appearances ☻. The list can be quite large...

Next, find the one you need in the list of sites. Next to the “Password” column there is an icon with an “eye” - if you click on it with the mouse, the password itself will appear instead of asterisks (example below). All you have to do is rewrite or copy it, and it can be used in another browser (or on another PC).

Firefox Quantum

Privacy settings address: about:preferences#privacy

To open a list of saved passwords in the new Firefox Quantum browser, click on the icon with three lines in the upper right corner (example - ), then select “Settings/Privacy and Security”. You can also use the address given above.

Note: please make sure that in the settings there is a checkmark next to the item “Remember logins and passwords for websites”. If it is not there, the browser will not save anything to its log...

Next, you will see a list of sites for which the browser has saved data. Just find your site in the list and click the button "Display passwords" (at the bottom of the window). Actually, that's all...

Opera

Settings address: opera://settings/passwords

To open the list of passwords in Opera, use the address given above (just copy it into the address bar of your browser and go to it). Next, you will see a window in which you can view the entire list of saved passwords. To view the hidden password - just click the button "Show"(screenshot below).

Yandex browser

Settings address: browser://settings/passwords

In the Yandex browser, everything is the same as in other browsers: copy the link (given above) into the address bar of the browser and follow it. Next in the list, find the desired site and look at the password (button "Show/Hide" ).

Find out the password hidden behind the asterisks

It happens that you forgot your password, but the browser remembers it and inserts it into the authorization form automatically, prompting you only to confirm your login (as, for example, in the screenshot below). The password, of course, is hidden by asterisks and cannot be copied or viewed. But you can very easily change this and recognize it.

I’ll show you using the Google Chrome browser as an example. (as the most popular one today ☻. In principle, the actions will be similar in many other browsers).

To begin, right-click on the password in the form of stars, then select from the menu (see screenshot below).

Next, in the highlighted page code, pay attention to the field type: type="password". Those. this type of field is used to enter a password and therefore the browser hides all characters in it with asterisks. But this type of field can be changed, right? Just change the word password on text- i.e. Let's change the field type.

Change the field type (password to text)

As soon as you finish text and the browser will take note of this - you will see that your password will be displayed instead of asterisks in the login window. Now you can copy it from the burn.

As for Firefox, which was the subject of the question at the beginning of the article, the modern version of Firefox Quantum is very similar to Chrome, and the action described above is done in the same way. You also need to right-click on the field in which you enter the password, select from the menu "Explore element" , and change the type from password to text.

PS

Many will laugh, but in fact the cool thing is that even on another PC, far from your main one, you can go and log in to the site you need and continue your work!

That's all for me, good luck!