How do you use Firejail?

[linuxyogi]

Yes I use it.
Your mileage may vary though.
Is there a reason you don't just use the Version already provided in Our Repos?

I am using 16.04. Under 17.04 any app opened with firejail opened as regular user (not root) but after moving to 16.04 I find that app are labelled "(as superuser)".
Its no big deal I guess they answer it on their FAQ page.

[halogen2]

Is this PPA safe to install https://launchpad.net/~deki/+archive/ubuntu/firejail ?

I find mention of the maintainer Reiner Herrmann here too https://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/utils/firejail

Reiner Herrmann is one of the firejail developers.
https://github.com/netblue30/firejai...ter/README#L37

[vasa1]

Yes I use it.
Your mileage may vary though.
Is there a reason you don't just use the Version already provided in Our Repos?

The version in the xenial repos is

firejail/xenial-updates,now 0.9.38.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 [installed]

The ppa mentioned is newer and shinier and I'll try it as well. Thanks!

[Quarkrad]

I have been using firejail for a few weeks now - without any additional options, i.e. firejail firefox. A few days ago I suddenly lost the ability to type in firefox. I have tried disabling all my add-ons - I'm running 16.04, ff 53.0.3 (64bit) and firejail 0.9.38.10 install via Synaptic. Anybody else experienced this?

[vasa1]

I have been using firejail for a few weeks now - without any additional options, i.e. firejail firefox. A few days ago I suddenly lost the ability to type in firefox. I have tried disabling all my add-ons - I'm running 16.04, ff 53.0.3 (64bit) and firejail 0.9.38.10 install via Synaptic. Anybody else experienced this?

And can you type when you launch Firefox without firejail?

[LastDino]

I have been using firejail for a few weeks now - without any additional options, i.e. firejail firefox. A few days ago I suddenly lost the ability to type in firefox. I have tried disabling all my add-ons - I'm running 16.04, ff 53.0.3 (64bit) and firejail 0.9.38.10 install via Synaptic. Anybody else experienced this?

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2362947

Read something similar here. Though, I'm not having that problem

[vasa1]

Quarkrad is using 16.04 and the repo version of firejail (v 0.38). 1fallen is on 17.10 and I think his firejail version is 0.46.

Edit: and this edit is typed using the repo version

vasa1@aes-3567:~$ apt policy firejail
firejail:
  Installed: 0.9.38.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Candidate: 0.9.38.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.38.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.38-1ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
     0.9.38-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

and Firefox 53. So I don't know how to explain Quarkrad's problem

[Quarkrad]

Yes - I can type if I launch firefox without firejail. The same thing (for me!) happens with Thuinderbird - if I launch firejail thunderbird I cannot type into a new message, if I just launch thunderbird I can type.

[vasa1]

Have you tried launching a text editor with Firejail? What happens there? Can you then type?

This is my terminal output:

vasa1@aes-3567:~$ firejail firefox
Reading profile /etc/firejail/firefox.profile
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-mgmt.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-secret.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/whitelist-common.inc
Parent pid 7063, child pid 7064
Blacklist violations are logged to syslog

Child process initialized
1497445868502	addons.update-checker	WARN	Update manifest for aushelper@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property
1497445868628	addons.update-checker	WARN	Update manifest for webcompat@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property
1497445868714	addons.update-checker	WARN	Update manifest for firefox@getpocket.com did not contain an updates property
1497445869518	addons.update-checker	WARN	Update manifest for e10srollout@mozilla.org did not contain an updates property
1497445869533	addons.update-checker	WARN	Update manifest for {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
1497445870819	addons.xpi	WARN	Add-on firefox-hotfix@mozilla.org is not compatible with application version.
1497445871202	addons.xpi	WARN	Add-on firefox-hotfix@mozilla.org is not compatible with application version.

(firefox:5): LIBDBUSMENU-GTK-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_shortcut: assertion 'gtk_accelerator_valid(key, modifier)' failed

parent is shutting down, bye...
vasa1@aes-3567:~$

[halogen2]

@Quarkrad Completely quit Firefox, then try -

firejail --noprofile firefox

Can you type in that Firefox?