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404 page regarding Waterfox on Linux #3687

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cnovel opened this issue Feb 28, 2025 · 2 comments
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404 page regarding Waterfox on Linux #3687

cnovel opened this issue Feb 28, 2025 · 2 comments
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cnovel commented Feb 28, 2025

What happened?

Reproduction step
Install Waterfox on Linux using Flatpak
Launch Waterfox
A banner below the adress bar warns the user: "Some of Waterfox's security features may offer less protection on your current operating system. How to fix this issue."

The link is a 404, and should be https://www.waterfox.net/support/install-waterfox-linux/ I guess.

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Linux Mint 22.1 / Waterfox 6.5.3

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  • I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

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G6

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Linux

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cnovel commented Feb 28, 2025

Also, the likely page candidate does not give any details about the security features and why it would offer less protection. I've looked in the documentation and couldn't find any relevant page. Should I raise another issue about this?

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aditya95sriram commented Mar 3, 2025

Seems like they might be referring to this Firefox support article.

You may see a warning that “some of Firefox’s security features may offer less protection on your current operating system”.
The sandbox in Firefox makes use of unprivileged user namespaces when creating new processes for enforcing more security. This can be considered a security risk, therefore some Linux distributions have started to restrict its usage and only allow it to work where there is an AppArmor profile.
... (goes on to explain how to create an AppArmor profile for firefox)

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