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Re: "How do you install your Internet browsers?"
i just have this general trust in repository software. i believe it is much much harder to have malicious code in them, than in, of course, let's say nodejs or rust repos. and in waterfox tar.gz binary files that i was downloading.
and sometimes, when i have no other choice than to try something binary, i try it from chroot, or at least from other user.
i became paranoid a little bit too much than it worth it, after using waterfox, and rebuilt every single package i had. though i only ran waterfox as user, but i thought, well, maybe it used some vulnerability to get root privileges and contaminate something in the system. well i realized that's not probable. but still rebuilt everything.
Jan 23 · 7 months ago
1. Download binaries and place them in a standard path for programs
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2. Download binaries and place them in a custom path
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3. Download installer pack
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4. Via repository
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5. Via flatpak
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6. Via snap
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7. Via AppImage
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8. Download source and compile
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🐙 norayr · 2024-01-23 at 13:06:
and if it contaminated the compiler - it would not save me anyway, since the contaminated compiler would compile malicious code in to newer binaries.
— see compiler backdoor section.
LibreWolf is apparently still not available on Ubuntu Jammy repositories (long-time Kubuntu user here), so I install the AppImages on my $HOME, sometimes also wrap them around "firejail --private=<dir> --appimage" for a bit of extra security.
🌧️ miragearchitect · 2024-01-25 at 06:57:
I add it to the nixos config...
📷 sjlxndr · 2024-01-25 at 17:48:
"via repository" but sometimes that means manually adding repositories, not just the OS defaults
🐙 norayr · 2024-01-30 at 01:00:
librewolf is surprisingly lightweight.
How do you install your Internet browsers?