How To Access Your Passwords From Your Browser When You Can’t Remember

These days we are so used to browser saving and remembering passwords. Sometimes so easy that it can cause you a bit of a headache if you forget and do not have a hang of how to access your password from your browser.

Have you ever tried to log into a new website and received a prompt to save or remember your password? Sure you have.

Without giving it a second thought you agree and go on. It’s so easy and convenient that you never have to bother or stress yourself about remembering any password.

Any time you want to log into your email or a particular website on your laptop all you have to do is open it up and without any issues, you are logged in. Life couldn’t be simpler. Who has time to start memorizing passwords with all the odd combinations of letters numbers and characters? Nah. Not you.

That’s all good until you need to login on another computer. Shoot! That’s when you realize you do not know what your password is. Yes, the username may be easy to remember. It most likely is your email but what about the password? Ever experienced that?

So, sometimes, there is a need to access your passwords. You just need them sometime.

So here is how you access your passwords from the 3 major browsers – Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

For today, let’s start with the most popular of the browsers. Chrome.

1. Launch Chrome and click on the 3 dots highlighted.

 

2. Click on the Settings option.

 

3. Click on passwords.

 

4. Use “Search Passwords” to search for any website you had saved the login details previously.

 

5. Take note of where the “Website, Username and Password,” columns are displayed.

 

6. The eye-like icons are what you click to display the password of any website

 

7. Alternatively, you can click on any of the three-dotted lines to the side for more options.

 

8. You can choose to copy the password to paste elsewhere, view the full details of the website or remove that particular website from being saved with its password from Chrome.

 

9. If you click on the eye-like icon, the password for that website is displayed for you to see.