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How to view saved passwords in Opera wand?

Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:02:20 AM

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  1. Go to http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html page, right click on View Passwords button, select Bookmark Link... and add.
  2. Open login page of site you want to view password and make sure login form fields are highlighted by wand in yellow color. Press keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Enter (or click wand button) and then Esc key quickly.
  3. Open View Passwords bookmarklet from bookmarks to view password.

Username & password fields highlighted by wand
Username & password form fields highlighted by wand

Password shown by 'View Password' bookmarklet
Password shown by "View Passwords" bookmarklet

OperaPassView or Opera wand.dat passwords retrieve utility can retrieve your passwords to a file when master password is not set.

To see password in a framed page use passwords bookmarklet.

Retrieve Wand Password Buttons

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Comments

caagh Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:52:19 PM

Fantastic! Many thanks for your help
Sheila

sonnybabusonybabu2k1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:23:05 AM

up

Unregistered user Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:27:54 AM

Anonymous writes: I simply can't get it why Opera didn't implement this function in the browser. To be honest, this is the only deficiency, which prevents me to convert to Opera from Firefox. I would like to have a built-in function which makes it possible to view my stored passwords, anytime I want.

Unregistered user Saturday, September 9, 2006 4:21:18 PM

nikanako writes: Thanks a lot for your help...

Flavio SuárezYinYanger Monday, October 2, 2006 3:05:44 PM

You can find the Opera wand.dat passwords retrieve utility in english at
http://speedman.sk/17operawanddatenglish/

Unregistered user Thursday, October 5, 2006 2:39:46 AM

Anonymous writes: I've been waiting *YEARS* for this! Thank you soooooo much!!

Unregistered user Monday, October 9, 2006 10:47:04 AM

rene writes: thanks but i have lost master pass for wand how can i get this back

Tamil Monday, October 9, 2006 10:56:14 AM

Originally posted by rene:

i have lost master pass for wand how can i get this back

It's not possible.

illiad Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:13:28 AM

... and remember at some date in the future, you will find you need *secure* passwords!!!

gmuraledhar Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:24:30 AM

great... it works

Unregistered user Sunday, September 2, 2007 6:43:35 AM

Tim writes: I'm sure this is great. It will help everynow and then. But this is the only reason why I hate opera, every browser I've used can show the encrypted remembered passwords in the 'remembered passwords' window. Also, I have a site which just recently changed the login page, and now I can't use this tool to get the password which I've forgot. Help? ~Tim

Zalex ;-) Zalex108 Saturday, October 27, 2007 1:41:41 PM

Jay Shri Hannuman! bigsmile

Thx! wink

Unregistered user Friday, January 4, 2008 2:53:50 AM

Anonymous writes: Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is useless if the login page has changed, and there's no field to fill in that corresponds to a saved entry in the wand. There seems to be no current Opera-side solution to this, so I have to revert to being reminded of my password by the server. I think it's time to ditch Opera, I'm sad to say.

Tamil Friday, January 4, 2008 4:16:37 AM

this is useless if the login page has changed

yes

Unregistered user Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:16:58 AM

Anonymous writes: Opera passwords restorer http://www.pzecret.net/webboard/index.php?topic=2518.0

Unregistered user Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:43:35 AM

choppa writes: Anonimous your trying to tell us its just one little thing like the wand stopping you from using Opera,come on Opera is by far a better browser than anything else out there,i agree its not perfect but neither is anything else.

Unregistered user Saturday, April 5, 2008 4:19:28 PM

Jakub writes: More funny is that a Firefox (where nothing is implemented by default) user is complaining something is not implemented in Opera... :)

nukedi Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:23:06 AM

thanks for the tip

Unregistered user Friday, July 11, 2008 10:00:56 PM

PooDoo writes: Why don't you all get smart and switch to Internet Explorer 7? You wouldn't have all these problems!

Unregistered user Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:09:38 AM

Patrick writes: @ PooDoo Pfft, why don't you get smart and not post stupid comments like that.

Unregistered user Monday, July 28, 2008 2:28:36 PM

Anonymous writes: thanks for your help Read about Firefox (you know it sucks) http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html They all earn and use our knowledge, it's open source but it closes your brain

tobylane Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:55:03 AM

Why the hell are people giving up opera just because they can't enter the passwords they wanted the browser to remember..

mertnuhoglu Friday, September 5, 2008 11:50:07 AM

Isn't this a security hole? I don't want someone to see my passwords. Is there any way to prevent this happen?

Tamil Friday, September 5, 2008 12:02:14 PM

Originally posted by mert.nuhoglu:

Isn't this a security hole?

Nope.

Originally posted by mert.nuhoglu:

Is there any way to prevent this happen?

Set master password.

Unregistered user Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:48:09 PM

Anonymous writes: How to remove master password which i have set in tool>preference>advanced>security>master password.

Tamil Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:11:01 PM

CTRL+F12 > Advanced > Security > [DISABLE] Use master password to protect saved passwords

Unregistered user Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:44:25 AM

Anonymous writes: This tip didn't help me. But I was able to view password using spell checker.

ir čia priėjo, Saulius :)einu Tuesday, December 2, 2008 2:19:54 PM

awesome thank you

if someone tries, note u must push esc - WERY quickly

Unregistered user Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:56:21 PM

Anonymous writes: does anyone have any experience of both wand and Roboform ? I would be surprised to here that wand is better.

J.EduardoJEduardo2011 Thursday, December 25, 2008 10:00:47 PM

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F A N T A S T I C ! ! ! ;-)

Ankur Katyalshootingspy Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:57:33 PM

Gr8 Utility must to have

Unregistered user Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:15:40 AM

Abhinav writes: Thanksssssssss a lot for the tip........................

Peterpman45 Monday, February 16, 2009 6:58:55 PM

Interesting to read all the comments and ....... I am not going to dump Opera just because I forgot my password. bigsmile

I gave Google Chrome a try and found that you could revile you password in plain text with a push of a button. How safe is it? sherlock

I also like the way Windows Xp deals with this problem in a very simple way just by adding the possibility to add a personal reminder.

Say that you entered "MonkeyWrench" as a password, you could then add "MonkeyTool" (too obvious)or "Wrench" if you just love monkeys. monkey

How about adding this to Opera 10? knight

Unregistered user Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:08:19 AM

Anonymous writes: my wand doesn't automatically put in passwords. Or, occasionally when it does, it will not remember two entries for one page, eg, username and password. So I have to have Firefox for when I'm going on sites that require passwords, unless i type them on by hand. It sure puts me off Opera, which otherwise I find far faster and efficient than the others. Is this a common bug? (Linux Ubuntu user)

Tamil Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:43:15 AM

If login page URL or form name for username or password changes, Opera won't fill it for security.

RobertoSanco Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:50:09 PM

Well, I have the same problem as above and all the websites I visit on Opera are randomly affected. I support the statement that must be a bug if today I visit a particular website that hasn't changed in donkeys years and the login fields are highlited with the yellow border - indicating that there is a password stored for it - and then the next day, on the same website, I have to input the same password, in the same fields that are sitting in the same place, manually.

It would be great if someone, with real knowledge and that could offer some solution based advice, would consider this issue.

Regards
Sanco

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:10:23 PM

Your linked bookmarklet fails for framed pages. I use Tarquin's password bookmarklet.

Tamil Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:32:23 PM

Thanks.

Unregistered user Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:46:44 PM

Anonymous writes: You're a life saver. Thx a bunch!

Unregistered user Sunday, June 7, 2009 11:38:13 PM

Indonesian writes: thank you very much.

Nancy López a.k.a. CyBeRGaTacybergata Monday, June 15, 2009 6:24:43 PM

Another thank you, Nancy

aram m arazzo Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:09:05 PM

superb ! thanks

AlexanderMeier Friday, July 17, 2009 9:34:56 AM

On http://operawiki.info/PowerButtons#retrievewand there is a button with which you don't need to press Esc

Unregistered user Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:51:40 AM

yes it's me writes: I've used IE7, IE8, firefox, opera, Safari, and a few others as i deal with a lot ao websites. ! thing I can say which I always find myself reverting back to is IE* which I now use. Every other browser has a problem or an excuse as to why it doesn't work right and it's never their fault. IE8 is by far the best browser ever and can be customized to suit you. It doesn't refuse anything and I have nevr had an issue with it, IE7 was good also. What I found with users of these other browsers is the only reasons they use them is because they like it simple and IE is to complicated for them to use. And they Then have the nerve to call themselves webmasters or computer geeks. Get real, if you where really one of those you would see that it dosen't matter what other browser you use you always need to have IE to support what it can't do and yet you fools find these better to use.. I guess that's what you call a simple fool. Lokk at what really is and stop with these crazy ideas about other browsers being better than IE.

Tamil Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:47:09 AM

Why IE market share is dropping if it is better?

Unregistered user Monday, July 27, 2009 6:00:14 PM

Anonymous writes: Awesome, thank you.

Unregistered user Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:19:09 AM

Kermode writes: Yep, Opera still sucks in this area. Amazing they haven't learned to do this right yet.

Unregistered user Tuesday, August 4, 2009 8:45:53 AM

Torquemada 1420 writes: This is a particularly poor area for Opera and something that Jon and co need to look at. As pointed out earlier, if the URL for the login changes slightly (I have one gone from http to https), you are stuffed: - you can't edit the address - IF I hadn't stored all my passwords somewhere else, I'd be stuffed and as it is, I still have the inconvenience of typing them in again.

Unregistered user Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:34:07 AM

Anon writes: Much thx m8

Cliveevilc Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:52:10 PM

Anyone tell me where I can get http://speedman.sk/17operawanddatenglish/, the site is no more?

Thanks

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