Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Recover forgotten passwords

One of the bugbears of my life is forgetting the passwords for websites I have signed up to. Even if you ask your browser to remember the password, the row of dots or asterisks doesn't actually tell you what the password is. And you can't copy and paste them into another field. To the rescue rides a brilliant little utility called PasswordFox. Assuming you use Firefox as your browser, just open this tiny (41kb) program and it gives you a complete list of all the sites you've signed up to, and their passwords. You can download a copy here. The downside is that anyone else visiting your machine can use PasswordFox to raid your store, and any websites you didn't want anybody else to know about will be shown in all their glory. There is an Internet Explorer equivalent, but you can go look for that yourself.

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