Hi, I would like to know how secure the Mullvad Browser is. So for example how long does it take for security fixes? If it turns out that a security fix is applied a week later than on Firefox, that’s unacceptable for me. Also I’m using Ubuntu and Mullvad Browser using just one deb file (as far a…

Less secure than any sane Chromium browser.

[image] Sentinel.abc1: And since it’s neither snap or flatpak, there is also no sandbox at all, right? Browsers have sandboxes, which are much more sophisticated than those of Snaps or Flatpaks. Don’t use browsers as a Flatpak, Snaps are usually fine.

[image] Sentinel.abc1: So for example how long does it take for security fixes? If it turns out that a security fix is applied a week later than on Firefox, that’s unacceptable for me. In the past 6 months, we have released after maximum 2 days from the Firefox release date. I am tracking the…

Thank you for the answer @ruihildt , but why is your post marked as the solution? I didn’t mark it as the solution and I made this thread. Also it was marked as the solution even before 24 hours passed after I made this thread. Gives me the feeling, that someone doesn’t want to talk too much about th…

First I want to make clear I have no ability to mark my posts as solution. Unfortunately I have no knowledge about sandboxing, so I’d suggest opening an issue in Github or Gitlab and a dev would possibly be able to answer you.

Thanks for the information. It just doesn’t make sense, that a moderator already marks a post as the solution although not even 24 hours passed or I had a chance to answer. If you would have marked it as the solution after a week or a month without new posts in this thread, that would be logical. Bu…

[image] Sentinel.abc1: I know that a browser has it’s own sandbox, but I was told, that flatpak or snap, whatever is better in this case, has additional sandbox(-features) on top of it and is therefore more secure, or is this not true? As previously said, Flatpak makes it worse for browsers, …

Even if Flatpak makes it worse, then how about snaps? I mentioned both. “It even includes adjustments for Ubuntu, like a dummy Apparmor profile to allow unprivileged user namespaces” → Im not saying, that there is a problem, I’m just cautious because there was/is a problem even with the Tor Browser…

[image] Sentinel.abc1: Even if Flatpak makes it worse, then how about snaps? I mentioned both. I already answered: [image] sha123: Snaps are usually fine. [image] Sentinel.abc1: I’m even still considering it for my second browser choice, after the Tor Browser of course If you t…

How secure is the Mullvad Browser, because Privacy ≠ Security

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anonfox November 21, 2024, 11:43am 3

Afaik flatpaks reduce Firefox based browsers internal sandboxing by blocking namespaces and chroots. See: Does Flatpak weaken Chromium/Firefox's sandbox? - #9 by sha123
1756236 - Figure out how to chroot/use namespace isolation in flatpak

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How secure is the Mullvad Browser, because Privacy ≠ Security

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