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Skylar
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hello, i'm syncing my firefox with all my devices, and it's using master password. But, someone no need that master password to access my web account using my cookies.

How can i really locking my firefox ? so, someone can't accessing anything even networking if don't know the master password.

hello, i'm syncing my firefox with all my devices, and it's using master password. But, someone no need that master password to access my web account using my cookies. How can i really locking my firefox ? so, someone can't accessing anything even networking if don't know the master password.

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Yes, you're right. Thank you

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user633449
user633449
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All a master password protects is the passwords you've saved in Firefox. If you want to protect everything in your profile, than disk encryption and putting a password on your operating system is the only way

Skylar
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Yes, you're right. Thank you