Just a short note:
If you are using Firefox or Waterfox browser, and you want your ‘ItsFOSS community login tab’ to remain logged in when you close the browser or reboot, you need to…
Go to Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and Site Data
and untick the box labelled
‘Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed’
Otherwise Firefox will not remember your logged in tab, and you will have to go through the fresh login and email authentication procedure every time you reboot or close the browser.
There may be security implications of unticking this box… malicious cookies may persist. That can be overcome by using a different browser for itsFOSS and doing all other browsing in a browser with the box ticked.
I think we could assume that the itsFOSS site does not itself generate malicious cookies… so it is safe to untick the box when viewing our forum site
I am going to do the same… use Waterfox for itsFOSS and other persistent logins, and Firefox for everything else. To get that to work, I have to temporarily make Waterfox the default browser while I login to itsFOSS, then switch the default to Firefox. … because the email authentication automatically goes to the default browser.
of course you´re right with everything you pointed out.
Perhaps I may add this one:
I think you can get away with using just one browser as long as it supports the -no-remote option…
… together with the firejail sandbox providing two different working directory paths that won´t interfere with each other.
By default, a single Firefox process instance handles multiple browser windows. If you already have Firefox running, you would need to use -no-remote command line option,
otherwise you end up with a new tab or a new window attached to the existing Firefox process.
Hi Rosika,
I learn something from you nearly every time you write
I had to look up -no-remote
I think it is better to do it with firejail… that mozilla response is confusing.
Thanks
Neville
Note:
That firejail sandboxing guide also has some interesting ideas on setting up a VPN.
Note2:
I think it is -no-remote not --no-remote
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Note3:
I used this firejail --private=/home/nevj/FOSSfox firefox -no-remote
when I try to do the email login , from in there, it opens another firefox with the default --private directory… it seems the email login always sets up the default browser.
So it doesnt work, I am afraid… or did I miss something?
Of course you´re right. My mistake. Sorry.
I just set it right.
Also: In my example I actually forgot to implement this very option for the 2nd instance of firejail.
I just corrected this as well.
Thanks for being so enttentive, Neville.
Oh my! I wish that was true. But thanks for your praise.
Thanks for the hint. I hadn´t noticed it before. I´ll look into it.
The command seems to be correct.
But I don´t quite understand the problem. Could you clarify it?
I works with me this way…
… although I don´t use the -no-remote option for my standard setup.
Are you saying when trying to log in, another firefox instance is opened
The command starts firefox OK, and I can get thd itsFOSS home page in a tab, but when I try to login, the email link opens another firefox, outside of firejail
I.e. defining a 2nd working directory for firejail and attaching the -no-remote option for firefox.
I cannot see why it would do that?
This, in my opinion, would just be the case if the login credentials link received by e-mail:
Use this link to securely sign in to your It’s FOSS account: […]
is used e.g. in thunderbird as “open this link” or something like that.
But if you just copy the link and enter it into the URL bar of the 2nd firejailed firefox instance it shouldn´t trigger a 3rd firefox insantance.
I´m at a loss here. It really shouldn´t pose any problems.
What might be amiss in your setup, I wonder…
In this this case of course the 3rd firefox instance (and an unjailed one) would be run, as it´s triggered by thunderbird or whatever e-mail client you´re using.
Well, I just suppose you´re doing that from an e-mail client and not from within your browser.
In the e-mail client just hover the mouse pointer over the link and right-click on it. Then an option “copy link” or something like that should appear.
Hope it helps.
Many greetings from Rosika
P.S.:
Well, the link is provided in the e-mail you get from ITSFOSS.
and, you are right, I can copy the link with the right mouse button, or I can drag and drop it.
So now I can put it into the correct instance of firefox. It should persist now… yes it persists, I tested closing the browser.
Thank You
Neville
Yes, I like it because it doesn´t consume a lot of resources.
As a a matter of fact running an instance of sylpheed takes up less RAM than opening a new tab in firefox would.