Password Recovery in the Epiphany Browser (Mozilla)
At some point, I was using the Epiphany web browser for Gnome on my linux workstation. I’m using Firefox now, but I had one obscure identity number that was hidden in the saved passwords that I needed to reveal. There was no option to show the saved password, and I couldn’t find any documentation for recovering the password.
I couldn’t find a Spy++ clone for linux (maybe it’s not possible…I don’t know) to reveal the value of the password field.
After a little searching, it seems Epiphany is Mozilla based (or uses the same directory structure). I found this page for recovering the password saved in Mozilla; it’s very similar in Epiphany. The password was saved in
~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/[random number].s
I guess it was base-64 encoded. I plugged the password in (minus the ~) to the javascript to decode it, worked like a charm. So frustrating when this simple stuff isn’t documented anywhere…
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