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Adding Firejail support to appimage-manager would allow managed AppImages to be run in a sandbox, which enhances security. This feature has been implemented in appimaged at AppImageCommunity/appimaged#41. It would be nice to see appimage-manager have feature parity.
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Doing an effective sandboxing of an application is a tricky issue, and must be performed for each application. Firejail provides a generic recipe which will definitively fall short for many apps.
The big issue here is who should we trust to create such recipe. The application author? A third party?
Making the desktop files to use firejail when launching the applications is simple but it will not be a big improvement in terms of security as long as the above mentioned issues is not solved.
Adding Firejail support to appimage-manager would allow managed AppImages to be run in a sandbox, which enhances security. This feature has been implemented in appimaged at AppImageCommunity/appimaged#41. It would be nice to see appimage-manager have feature parity.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: