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Is it possible to show passwords when entering them instead of masking with * so a person with poor typing can see what they are entering

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bernardgreen
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A friend with arthritic fingers often hits the wrong key when typing a password which can mean several attempts have to be made. Recently she was locked out of a site after several failures to enter the password.

A friend with arthritic fingers often hits the wrong key when typing a password which can mean several attempts have to be made. Recently she was locked out of a site after several failures to enter the password.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Try the Show My Password extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8016/

cor-el
cor-el
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Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  • Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.