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> Which is a big win when a user level process (e.g. firefox) gets hosed (which can happen quite easily to things like browsers). Run Firefox under a different
by troels 17y ago
> Which is a big win when a user level process (e.g. firefox) gets hosed (which can happen quite easily to things like browsers).
Run Firefox under a different user account, with limited access to the system. Problem solved.
- likpok 17y agoIt's not solved. How do you download a file? How do you let it download this file, but not that one? Firefox isn't built to understand that concept, so it takes more than just denying it write privledges to solve.
- troels 17y agoYou download to the dedicated users home directory, and then you make your main user part of the same group as the firefox-user. I didn't get the last part of your question? Why wouldn't you want to download that file?