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I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If Firefox can read it from disk without a password, any other program running as your user can read it from disk without a password. But to prevent this you can encrypt your Firefox profile with a password.