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Firejail......Secure and Sandboxed Browsing

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Secure and Sandboxed Browsing.
Useful with other applications and available for many Linux Distros
We already knew that, didn't we? But..............FYI

Here is an update to an earlier post, here where Firejail actually broke Firefox 60.0 in quite a few cases according to many other forum threads.

My initial knee-jerk reaction was Firefox had gone tits up. Not so, Firejail to blame.
Link: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=73103

Updated by the developers, only hours after FF60 was released apparently.

Now we have a new look Firejail, which is compatible with Firefox 60.0 and it actually looks way better too. :thumbup:
Gone is the ugly red-box interface........ :thumbup:

Firejail (Firejail 0.9.54) Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/firejail/
Firetools GUI (0.9.52) Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fireja ... firetools/

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No more woes!! :thumbup:

If you have an older version installed, you must firstly remove any older packages fully, through Synaptic, or the terminal with "sudo apt-get purge firejail" command (without the quotes).

For installing and ease of use I use gdebi package installer on my sstems, but you can compile from tar/zip if you are a terminal geek/wizard.

When both programmes are installed, a nice new interface pops up...... :D

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Tried and tested on Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64bit & Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64bit

Why use firejail??? See here.....
Link: https://www.linux.com/blog/learn/2018/5 ... d-firejail
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Re: Firejail......Secure and Sandboxed Browsing

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