How to delete passwords typed in wrong box

Have you experienced this? In your rush to login, you mistakenly enter your password in the username box. And now your password is visible in the browser for other users to see. What do you do? Use this nifty trick you learned from MacSwitched. Annoying mistake, ain't it? You can delete it without deleting your whole cache. Solution: In the drop down, hover your mouse over the erring item, then click Shift-fn-delete and voila ! No more cached password in clear text. I used to have to delete my cache -- tedious and annoying. But now this trick saves the day! The MacSwitched Blog - Online Journal of a Mac Switcher Tips, tricks and other discoveries about Macs and iPods.

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How to delete passwords typed in wrong box is an episode from MacSwitched by Ruben and Data Canlas.

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This episode was published on Aug 14, 2013.

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