FirePasswordViewer 13 is a freeware password viewer app and password tool developed by SecurityXploded for Windows. It's easy-to-use, light on system resources, minimalistic, advanced, straightforward and well-designed.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Firefox Password Recovery Software
FirePasswordViewer is the GUI version of popular FirePassword tool to instantly recover login passwords stored by Firefox on your system.
Firefox has a built-in password manager tool which stores username and passwords for all the visited websites. These credentials are stored in the encrypted form in the Firefox profile's database files such as key3.db and signons.txt.
The key3.db file contains master password related information such as encrypted password check string, salt, algorithm and version information etc.
Signons.txt file contains the actual sign-on information:
* Reject Host list : List of websites for which user don't want Firefox to remember the credentials.
* Normal Host List : Each host URL is followed by username and password.
Features of FirePasswordViewer
- Automatically discovers Firefox profile location based on installed version of Firefox.
- Easier and faster to use with its enhanced user friendly interface.
- Instantly decrypt and recover stored passwords from 'Firefox Secret Store' for all versions of Firefox.
- It can recover passwords from Firefox even when it is protected with master password. In such case user have to enter the correct master password to successfully decrypt the passwords.
- It comes with Installer to help in local Installation & Uninstallation.
- Passwords are not shown by default for security reasons as it is sensitive data. However user can toggle this behavior using 'Show Password' button.
- Save the recovered Firefox password list to HTML/XML/Text file.
- Sort feature to arrange the displayed password list by username, password or website which makes it easy to search through 100's of entries.
- Supports recovery of passwords from local system as well as remote system. User can specify Firefox profile location from the remote system to recover the passwords.
Compatibility and License
FirePasswordViewer is provided under a freeware license on Windows from password software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 13.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can FirePasswordViewer run on?
FirePasswordViewer can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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