Firefox and VM

[der.hans]

Am 29. Nov, 2023 schwätzte Steve B via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin Steve,

I use debian lxc containers on a debian desktop for my containerized
Firefox profiles.

Mostly I just use many Firefox profiles ( usually have several Firefox
instances running at a time ) on my desktop and make heave use of Firefox
containers.

I run unprivileged lxc containers as another user, then use ssh -Y to
bring them up on my desktop. I'm probably causing a lot of overhead this
way :).

At Stammtisch a couple weeks ago Victor talked to me about Qubes. I've
looked at Qubes a few times, but never played with it. He said it does a
great job of isolating processes in VMs, even the desktop is a VMs. He got
me interested in checking the project out again.

https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/

ciao,

der.hans

> I've been using Apparmor and Firejail to secure Firefox for the past few
> years. However, for sometime now I'm finding that Firefox profiles for one
> or the other do not appear to be maintained. Consequently I'm looking to
> move my use of Firefox to a VM.
>
> My dilemma is what OS to use for the VM. Alpine or Damn Small were my first
> considerations. Small footprint, just the essentials and then add Firefox.
>
> Is anyone here doing something similar? Looking for suggestions as to which
> OS to use.
>
> Steve
>

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