Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- start:firefoxesr [2023/08/30 20:04] – peter
+++ start:firefoxesr [2023/08/30 20:35] (current) – peter
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
- DATE CHECKED THIS PAGE WAS VALID: 30/08/2023
+DATE CHECKED THIS PAGE WAS VALID: 30/08/2023
+As we are running a testing version of Debian, it is crucial to take extra precautions in protecting the box against malicious vectors.
+Unfortunately the web browser is one of the best ways to be compromised, and to ensure that we protect a testing box, we will move to a sandboxed environment with strict containment (snapd) of Firefox esr. While some people have misgivings about snap, it is a better security model and we will take advantage of that here as we are using testing as a daily driver.
 So in Debian lets open a terminal and type:
@@ Line 9: / Line 12: @@
 </code>
-You will note that if you read the output Debian must have a web browser installed as part of its apt requirements so it will suggest chromium instead of Firefox. We will accept this recommendation and just press y. We want a sandboxed version of Firefox for daily use and will keep chromium as a backup browser in case we need it.
+You will note that if you read the output Debian must have a web browser installed as part of its apt requirements (untrue on debian 12?) so it will suggest chromium instead of Firefox. We will accept this recommendation and just press y. We want a sandboxed version of Firefox for daily use and will keep chromium as a backup browser in case we need it.
+If it does not ask to install another browser you can do it by:
+<code>
+sudo apt-get install chromium
+</code>
 Now we need to install snaps:

Make Debian Fun Again And Learn How To Do Other Cool Stuff Too

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools