How to Show Password Asterisk ✱ in Mozilla Firefox 🦊

How to Show Password Asterisk ✱ in Mozilla Firefox 🦊

Revealing the password that is underneath the asterisks on a web page containing a login form in the Firefox web browser is much easier than you might imagine. Here is how:

1. Go to the web page where you wish to reveal the password behind the asterisks (or dots) in the Firefox web browser.
2. Left click the password text box to make sure that it's the current item that is selected on the web page.
3. Right click on the password text box to reveal the Firefox pop-up context menu.
4. Click the Inspect Element menu item. This will open up the Mozilla Firefox element inspection window towards the bottom of the Firefox browser window.
5. The password text box will be highlighted and selected in the inspection window.
6. Look for the text that reads type="password".
7. Double click on the word password. The word password will now be selected.
8. Type with the keyboard to replace the word password with the word text so it now reads type="text".
9. Click on the web page away from the inspection window so the textbox updates as a text box instead of a password box.

Firefox R Click Password Box, Click Inspect Element Menu Item

Firefox R Click Password Box, Click Inspect Element

Change type="password" to type="text"

Change type="password" to type="text"

You will now be able to see the password that was hidden behind the asterisks in the Firefox web browser.

Free Firefox 🦊 Extension to Reveal Password Behind Asterisk ✱

While the steps above are simple enough, if you really want to make revealing the password that is behind the asterisks in Mozilla Firefox, you can install our free extension or bookmarklet called Password Asterisks Revealer. This makes it so when you are on a web page with a password form and you want to reveal the password, just click on the bookmarklet or extension and the password behind the asterisk is instantly revealed.