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Firefox and KeePassXC Flatpaks

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 07, 2023

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Flatpaks are amazing and all that. But application sandboxing, so an application cannot do anything it wants, is a challenge – even more so when you have two applications that need to talk to each other. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that native-messaging sandboxing support for Flatpak has been in development for over a year. To celebrate its anniversary I thought I’d write down how to drill a native-messaging sized hole into the sandbox. This enables the use of native messaging even without portal integration, albeit also without sane degrees of sandboxing.

First off, please understand that this undermines the sandbox on a fairly fundamental level. So, don’t do this if you don’t keep your Firefox updated or visit particularly dodgy websites.

Read on

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