Comment 0 for bug 1847092

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Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :

I'm a Firefox user who uses Chromium for certain google websites.

I like to run Chromium in a sandbox so that the "Downloads" folder is the only file system location Chromium can see.

In Ubuntu 19.04, I could achieve this like:
sudo apt install chromium-browser firejail ; firejail chromium-browser

In Ubuntu 19.10, firejail cannot work with the Chromium's new snap installation method:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1178995

The snap installation's degree of isolation seem to be controlled by the developer of snap package.

Since firejail no longer works for achieving this degree of isolation, I requesting that the Snap Package Maintainer (of Chromium), provide an alternative installation that only give Chromium access to the "Downloads" folder exclusively.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: chromium-browser (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-13.14-generic 5.3.0
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 7 08:15:38 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Beta amd64 (20191001.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)