If at a certain moment we require some kind of tool to help us remember the passwords and manage each of them "With a teacher", Why not do the opposite? This means that if at a certain moment we have required a little help to remember the passwords stored in the Internet browser, it may also be necessary to try to eliminate them, in the event that our computer is shared with other users. If this is our need, Browser Password Remover will offer us a great solution.
Browser Password Remover is an application that does not require installation, although it works only on Windows. It is portable and with it, we could even carry it on our USB pendrive, having plenty of reasons to use it from there once we define, in which computers we will need to eliminate user names and access passwords to different services. Despite the fact that the tool is very easy and simple to handle, there are a few parameters that we will have to handle correctly to avoid a definitive loss of these passwords.
How Browser Password Remover works with our passwords
The first thing we have to do is download Browser Password Remover from the official website of its developer; because it has a large number of applications proposed there, we suggest you go directly to this link, where you will find the "download" button; in the compressed file (in Zip format) you will find both the portable version and the executable version that will allow you to install it on Windows. If you are going to use this tool on different computers, it is recommended that you extract to the folder that contains the portable version with some specialized tool, this to later save it on a USB pendrive.
Once you have done it, you only have to look for the executable inside the extracted folder; The interface window of Browser Password Remover will immediately appear, where you only have to click on the button that says Show Passwords.
Once you have proceeded with it, Browser Password Remover will immediately start scanning all browsers that you have installed on your computer; This tool is compatible with the main Internet browsers, mainly Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Opera being on this list.
It is incredible everything that Browser Password Remover can find by just clicking on the "Show Passwords" button, since the results will be shown very well identified in the 4 columns that make up the interface of this tool, these being the following:
- The type of browser.
- The URL of the website found with active credentials.
- The username.
- Password.
It is recommended that you should carry out this analysis personally and when nobody is watching you at that moment, since passwords as well as user names are not encrypted (with the typical asterisks that usually appear in passwords); Depending on the number of websites to which you have subscribed with these credentials will be the list that will be displayed, and you must use the small bar on the right side to be able to review all those who are there.
Before you get ready to delete all this information, you should consider that later you will not be able to recover these credentials although, if you have used a password manager (as LastPas) this should not concern you as they will be hosted in the cloud service of their respective developers. In any case and in order not to take any risk, towards the lower left side there is a small button that says Backup, which you will have to select to make a backup of all these credentials.
If you select it, a window will open in which you will have to enter the name of the file for this backup; There you can also define the format of this file, which can be txt, HTML, or an XML.
After you have made the backup you can now delete all these credentials with the button that is located towards the bottom right and that says «remove All«, Although you could selectively remove a few of them with the« Remove »button.