Firefox 99 Available With Strengthened Linux Sandbox, Web MIDI

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 99 Available With Strengthened Linux Sandbox, Web MIDI

Mozilla is officially shipping Firefox 99 today and the last feature release before next month's Firefox 100 milestone...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-99-Released

[uid313]

I would like Mozilla to publish a strongly sandboxed Snap with minimal permissions. They can have the normal Snap for normal users, but I think should have a separate Snap that is strongly sandboxed so both can be installed side-by-side so I have one normal Firefox for trusted websites, and one strongly sandboxed one (no storage, Bluetooth, USB, etc) for untrusted websites.

[M1kkko]

Dude why have you not installed adblock or got Phoronix Premium, even that screenshot is painful to look at

[Danny3]

Did they fix the broken video hardware acceleration from version 98?
What is more important than that, do we really have to downgrade to version 97?

[lucrus]

I would like Mozilla to publish a strongly sandboxed Snap with minimal permissions. They can have the normal Snap for normal users, but I think should have a separate Snap that is strongly sandboxed so both can be installed side-by-side so I have one normal Firefox for trusted websites, and one strongly sandboxed one (no storage, Bluetooth, USB, etc) for untrusted websites.

You can safely browse porn by running FF in a virtual machine.

[CochainComplex]

You can safely browse porn by running FF in a virtual machine.

Made my day

[skeevy420]

Dude why have you not installed adblock or got Phoronix Premium, even that screenshot is painful to look at

I suggest AdNauseam. It's based on uBlock Origin and includes a Click Ads setting that clicks on every single ad the site presents -- that gives the website ad revenue while also fighting fire with fire since clicking everything makes tracking just as futile as blocking everything.

As far as I know, that's the most ethical ad blocker due to having that setting...I haven't bothered looking for other ad blockers since someone suggested this one to me in a previous Phoronix thread months and months ago.

[elatllat]

> processes exposed to web content no longer have access to any underlying X11

But Wayland is default on Ubuntu, Fedora ... is it an Arch installer preset yet?

[uxmkt]

MIDI? What year is it?!

[MrCooper]

Has anyone worked out when Firefox‘s version number will overtake Chrome‘s, at their current release schedules?