Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb
Hmm? You lose the namespace isolation, and by extension the chroot, but that’s it. It’s definitely nice to have, but to say it’s “most” of the sandboxing seems a misrepresentation. Note that some distros disable the kernel support for them by default, so that’s what they currently get regardless of Flatpak.
Flatpak version has weaker sandboxing, this security issue is still open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1756236 . Some smaller issues are about convenience only.
To firefox it doesn’t seem to be too bad.
Technically yes, as Firefox sandboxing is extremely weak anyway. A bit more weaker, than weak won’t change much.
Finally I underdtand to whom I talk, thx
Firejail is an alternative