If you're on prem or able to manipulate the machine into an OS of your choosing, yes. But with purely remote access to a device the disk is pretty decently secured (even if Window's ACLs are nightmareishly convoluted).
And if you whack someone with a wrench until they tell you the password, it's even easier!
Seriously, if someone is getting physical access to the machine to the extent where they can remove the hard drive... I doubt that it makes a difference whether the browser's password manager keeps its passwords encrypted in-memory.
If I have a disk image or access to the physical drive, it's trivial. This means they can no longer be considered encrypted at rest.
If you're on prem or able to manipulate the machine into an OS of your choosing, yes. But with purely remote access to a device the disk is pretty decently secured (even if Window's ACLs are nightmareishly convoluted).
If your computer storage is not fully encrypted you have bigger worries than the swap file.
It is when the computer is off.
And if you whack someone with a wrench until they tell you the password, it's even easier!
Seriously, if someone is getting physical access to the machine to the extent where they can remove the hard drive... I doubt that it makes a difference whether the browser's password manager keeps its passwords encrypted in-memory.