Gmail users at large are unsuspecting internet users who often overlook various minor but precautions to be followed at a public computer. If you thought your password can’t be read by anybody else just because of its facade of asterisks, think again.

You don’t have to be a hacker, neither have to use a software to view the Gmail password. The best method of doing that is by a javascript.

1. Open your web browser. If you have saved your username and password, it’ll look like below.

Gmail Login

Gmail Login

2. Copy/Paste this javascript :

javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j

3. Hit Enter.

password

password

And, you have the Password in a dialog box as shown above.

This method works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera. You must not save your password if you’re using a shared computer. However, if you accidentally saved the password, clear the cache.



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An Analyst in UBS Investment Bank. He is an IIT Kharagpur graduate in Mining Engineering. Ashish Gourav is an internetoholic, loves to gather knowledge and spends a helluva time on internet. It's highly probable that you would find him online now, so follow him on twitter @ashishiitkgp4...you can also read his personal blog : http://iitashish.blogspot.com/

Comments:
  1. its working in google chrome aswell! Thanks for sharing Ashish :-)

  2. :D My Pleasure ….keep coming

  3. Hi .. some part of that code not visible here… can u post that code with fully visible??

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