Timothy Murphy writes:

I was rather surprised to find that I could read the passwords
stored by Mozilla/Firefox (Preferences=>Security).
I always assumed they were encrypted in some way.
Pure ignorance, I guess.

Obviously Firefox needs to save and recover all your passwords, if it were to automatically provide them on your behalf.

So the passwords must be accessible to Firefox. Merely not displaying them is a false sense of security.

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