Friday, March 12, 2010

How to Recover Forgotten Mozilla Firefox Passwords?

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Mozilla Firefox is one of the popular web browsers used by different communities of people. When you access a website that requires username and password through Firefox, the details get stored on your local hard disk as encrypted data in Windows registry. Like other web browsers, Firefox also incorporates built-in functionality (Password Manager) to remember passwords for the user. But sometimes, the passwords might not be saved. Such situations create possibilities of losing or forgetting the passwords for one or more websites. In these circumstances, a Password Recovery Software can aid recovering lost or forgotten Mozilla Firefox passwords.

Firefox Password Manager allows you to manage all the website passwords that you want it to remember. Once the information is stored, it auto-fills the appropriate fields whenever you try to access the website. But for the function to work, you need to click the 'Remember' button on the prompt, which appears when the website opens. If you click 'Never for This Site', Firefox skips storing the password details. So each time when you want to access the website, you need to manually type in the website password.

Sometimes, you may observe Firefox doesn't prompt or save the password. This might occur for following reasons:

• Firefox Password Manager is configured not to remember the password for a particular website.
• Password saving setting is disabled in Firefox.
• Firefox Password Manager is configured to erase the password once it closes.
• You are using Firefox 'Private Browsing' feature, which restricts saving the passwords.
• Few websites don't permit storing the passwords for data security reasons.

Losing or forgetting website passwords is common. If any of the above cases occurs, chances are that you may lose a password for a website in Firefox. Consider a similar situation, when you cannot access a website because you have lost or forgotten the password. You cannot view the e-mails or any other data stored in your website account.

But fortunately, there are several Password Recovery utilities that can recover these passwords. The Password Recovery Software designed for Firefox can allow retrieving the forgotten password in a few clicks.

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