I hadn't seen sandfox before actually - thanks for the tip.

This solves part of the problem (restricting filesystem access) and 
targets Linux - at the moment our project is mostly focused on Windows,
as there's where the majority of Firefox users are.

Can you elaborate more on how dbus is used for config ? 

As far as Linux goes though, there's a lot of work happening with B2G
to enable process-per-app and restricting what these app/content processes
can do via seccomp. 

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746280 "Tracking: Run content 
processes with lowered rights"
is a good bug to follow if you're interested in that 

i'm hopeful that this work will make it back into Linux desktop Firefox in some 
form

thanks !
ian


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Chadwick" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:44:24 AM
Subject: Re: a sandboxed Firefox

> Do you know how other people have solved this with Firefox?

I presume you have looked at sandfox. I stripped that down a bit and
made it work on a more secure system setup for my purposes. Firefox
dbus reliance for the simple task of config is a little annoying here.

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