I have no intention to disable unveil permanently. I was just trying to solve a bug. When I saw that it didn't work, I enabled it again. Yes, I considered using linux. I give it a go from time to time. It gets worse every time. It moves away from unix philosophy. I don't like it. If I could, I would use plan9 (joking). OpenBSD does not currently support the wifi chip on my laptop and the touchpad freezes after a while. But I plug in a dongle and a USB mouse and continue using OpenBSD. Thank you all for this great operating system.
Jan 14, 2023, 18:04 by dera...@openbsd.org: > At some point you have to realize two things > > - the restrictions we added to browsers inside are *intentional* > to reduce access outside of their general usage, in particular > restrictions inside your home directory > > - But some libraries and applications you are trying to use are > designed to violate those principles *intentionally*, because > they are written by people on other operating systems, and they > either believe they should have access to everything, or they are > written to inadvertently access such things. > > So these principles are incompatible. > > Sometimes a middle ground can be reached, but there are so many of these > circumstances that it is likely that all the possible use cases will > never be satisfied. So it is a huge amount of developer time being > spent _for the atypical user_. > > So, have you considered using Linux instead? And I'm really not joking. > I'm very serious. That is a system, like Windows, bending over backwards to > ensure that applications can do anything they want inside your home > directory. > > It's so bizzare. You are disabling one type of security to gain what > you believe is another type of security, hammering nails you do not know. > > Do you not sense the dissonance? > > onatinadr...@tutanota.com wrote: > >> >> >> (sorry, I forgot to break lines) >> >> ok, I disabled unveil by renaming all unveil* files and creating new files >> that contain only "# disable". the issue persists though. another hint: >> libmozav* files in /usr/local/lib/tor-browser have the extension .7.0. >> those in /usr/local/lib/firefox-esr, have the extension 9.0. maybe >> that's the reason. >> >> Jan 13, 2023, 23:55 by : >> >> > ok, I disabled unveil by renaming all unveil* files and creating new files >> > that contain only "# disable". the issue persists though. another hint: >> > libmozav* files in /usr/local/lib/tor-browser have the extension .7.0. >> > those in /usr/local/lib/firefox-esr, have the extension 9.0. maybe that's >> > the reason. >> > >> > Jan 13, 2023, 14:26 by s...@spacehopper.org: >> > >> >> On 2023/01/13 13:30, onatinadr...@tutanota.com wrote: >> >> >> >>> before installing ffmpeg, both tor-browser and firefox-esr play >> >>> youtube videos with sound. after installing ffmpeg, firefox-esr >> >>> plays videos on other sites too but tor-browser does not. it >> >>> shows a warning that I need to install codecs. I wonder if it's >> >>> an unveil issue. I would try disabling unveil for tor-browser >> >>> but I couldn't find any documentation on how to disable unveil >> >>> >> >> >> >> Should be same as firefox, but in /etc/tor-browser instead. >> >> >>
