View and Protect Passwords in Firefox

[TheGreatOne]

Now a days, Mozilla Firefox is one of the popular browsers in the world. Even i use Firefox as my default browser. While browsing security is the important factor for all of us. So, couple of days ago we have seen How to save passwords with Firefox and now its time to know how to View or protect the passwords saved on Firefox.

With Firefox, you saved your usernames and passwords for quick access to protected services: messaging, forums, etc.. If you do not remember a password and you want to find, it is possible.

• To access the list of saved passwords, click on Tools then Options.
• Open the Security tab.
  
  
  
• Click on the Saved Passwords button.
  
  
  
• Identifiers recorded are displayed. Click Show Passwords to see the corresponding passwords.
• You will get a confirmation popup. Finally, click OK.
  
  
  
• The passwords are displayed in clear text.
• Thats it..

[TheGreatOne]

To protect the passwords you save for you to quickly identify an Internet service, you can set a master password. This password will be requested once per session when Firefox will need access to information that you recorded.To do so:-

• Click on the Tools menu and then Options.

• Open the Security tab.

• In the words password, check Use a master password.

• Enter a password and confirm it. Click OK twice.

Now when you want to use a stored password or add a new, your master password will be required.