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Firefox's saved passwords are not encrypted and just copying your user profile to another computer will allow someone else to use your credentials.
If you use Chrome, do you really want Google knowing your logins?
But they are encrypted.
I think you mean if you don't use a primary password. They're still encrypted then, but since they can be used freely from inside the browser they are indeed not protected from someone copying the profile.
Firefox supports a master password to encrypt them with
But by default it's not encrypted and nobody ever changes the default settings