subject: How to recover saved passwords on mozilla Firefox? [print this page] How to recover saved passwords on mozilla Firefox?
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As a report of October 2010, Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.
Firefox, like most other popular browsers, comes with a built-in functionality to save your password. Often we'll use the saved password feature so that we've completely forgotten our password when we need to login to the same website on another computer. But if we have lost or forgotten the website password and can't access the Firefox to view the salved password, what should you do?
At this situation, Firefox Password Recovery 5.0 comes in handy. It is a smart and powerful utility to recover passwords to web sites saved in Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird. This tool can get the list of all usernames and passwords saved in Firefox Web Browser with only one button click!
In addition, this program also allows you to reset Firefox Master Password.
Features:
1. Recover passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox and Mozilla browsers.
2. Decrypt passwords protected with User Master Password.
3. Recover email account passwords from Mozilla Thunderbird.
4. Support for multilingual passwords.
5. Allow you to reset Firefox Master Password easily.
6. Friendly wizard interface.
How to use:
With this user guide, even a new user can fully control Firefox Password Recovery in less than a minute.
Tip:
Below are the steps to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird. This program also allows you to reset Firefox Master Password. To see the detailed information, please refer to the "Help" document integrated in the program.
Follow the guide below to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox Web Browser
Step1: To get a list of all passwords stored by Firefox Web Browser, press "Start Recovery" button and select Recover Firefox Password menu item.
Step2: The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.
Follow the guide below to reset Firefox Master Password
Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press "Start Recovery" button and select Reset Firefox Master Password menu item.
Step2: The program will prompt a dialog which contains the instructions to follow to reset Firefox Master Password.
Step3: Open Mozilla Firefox and enter URL in address bar, click the "Reset" button and it will immediately reset the master password.
Follow the guide below to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Thunderbird
Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press "Start Recovery" button and select Reset Thunderbird Password menu item.
Step2: The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.
Follow the guide below to recover Firefox passwords from unbootable computer or crashed Firefox Web Browser
Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press" remove from file" button and windows will pop up.
Step2: Select the Firefox installation directory and select the Firefox profile directory and click "ok" button. The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.
Note:
Firefox Password Recovery 5.0can be downloaded on it official website. By the way, there is a tool there called Password Recovery Bundle which including not onlyFirefox Password Recovery 5.0 but also other programs that can recover your windows password, file password as well as email password.
