On: Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet

[Tharkun]

Another good reason to use Firejail. You tell it which folders FF gets to access, and Bob's your uncle.

[OJFord → Tharkun]

But if this is only leaking the directory you choose to download, Bob's already your uncle?

Issue is that people don't and don't want to choose a fresh/clean-enough directory every download.

[grapeli23 → Tharkun]

It's easier to create a new user account and run firefox from it. Something like: xhost +si:localuser:firefox && su - firefox -c 'DISPLAY=:0 HOME=/home/firefox firefox 2>/dev/null' && xhost -

[Tharkun → grapeli23]

Yeah, because that's a lot easier than just running "firejail firefox".. And does your snippet work on Wayland?