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"I have forgotten my Orkut/Gmail Password" – How to Recover the Hidden Password

This is the most stupid situation I face when I sit in front of Computers at my college / Cafe. This is because I have forgotten my passwords to my Gmail/Orkut Acount. Thanks to the use of the “Remember Me” feature in most form logins to help the signing in process faster.

Well,

There are 2 Easy Steps to Recover your Forgotten Passwords

Step 1

Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy, and select the Saved Passwords option.

Screenshot of saved passwords option

Click on View Saved Passwords to see the Password Manager and you’ll see a Show Passwords button at the bottom right. That’s new.

Screenshot of Password Manager

You get a confirmation dialog (supposedly because showing your passwords is an important event). I think the intended use of the confirmation dialog is to save you from inadvertently showing your passwords to someone looking over your shoulder.

Screenshot of confirmation dialog when clicking Show Passwords

And your passwords are then shown in the plain text glory (mine are “pinked out” in the screenshot below, of course).

Screenshot of Password Manager with passwords showing

Step 2

On any page or login forms with asterisks passwords,
Copy paste the following Javascript into the url bar and hit enter.
Your password should display on a popup window.

javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = “”; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == “password”) s += f[i].value + “\n”; } } if (s) alert(“Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n” + s); else alert(“There are no passwords in forms on this page.”);})();


These 2 steps are enough to help you get back your long forgotten password.

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3 Responses to “"I have forgotten my Orkut/Gmail Password" – How to Recover the Hidden Password”

  1. ankit2009 says:

    not working………

  2. Ajay Tandon says:

    m using gmail a/c and with the same id i was using orkut ..now i fount my a/c is locked although the pass and id is correct but it shows inccorect ..and a/c locked . i checked out my orkut profile throught another id ..and found tht on my proifle some pron link r being shown which are nt in my knwoledge and frm few days ago i found addln communities are added to my orkut a/c without my concern and knwoledge the gmail a/c is too important for me so plz help me out

  3. devm says:

    nice info lets check
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