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Why doesn't Firefox encrypt local data?

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1431634#c9

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1431634#c9

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philipp
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use the disk encryption feature of your operating system - it's not efficient if every program on your system would need to come up with it's own solution for that problem...