A setup similar to the OpenBSD unveil system maybe?What's the advantage of running firefox in a jail ?
A setup similar to the OpenBSD unveil system maybe?What's the advantage of running firefox in a jail ?
Low if you have vulnerable OS/pkg's are in use. That is why servers don't have browsers. How much useful are general users to the interested parties. Probably only my identity and banking activities are at stake.What's the advantage of running firefox in a jail ?
There are a few.What's the advantage of running firefox in a jail ?
rm -fR /home/mysuser/.cache /home/myuser/.mozilla
You can also limit how much RAM firefox can hog, supposedly. rctl(8) works on jails and specific-number processes. I'm in the middle of reading a klarasystems article about that. Basic idea, if you apply rctl(8) to the jail that has firefox in it, this just might work. But like I said, I'm in the middle of exploring that.What's the advantage of running firefox in a jail ?
Yes, but they haven't metastasized into your main host system.I would like to disagree.
* You can contain the cancerous spread of dependencies and general cruft that Firefox spams all over your system.
-> The dependencies of firefox move from the host to the jail . The dependencies remain.
You need to do more than that to kill all the malignant cells.Code:rm -fR /home/mysuser/.cache /home/myuser/.mozilla