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FIrefox can and should but refuses to implement browser level encryption to protect every browsing data generated by the browser. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Chrome does not do it either but are we supposed to be the ones that start a new trend or the ones that follow the trend?

I made a post into their feature request section about how important it is for privacy and security. It is perfectly possible to do but they are not interested in doing.

What I asked was that they provide a feature that allows users to opt in to encrypt all browsing data including history, passwords, cookies, etc. With this feature I can only access my browser information after I open up Firefox and provide my encryption password.

How would this help? Well, there could be viruses that can read Firefox browsing history and cookies and send that to the server. With this feature enabled, one can be even more safer.

There is an option to encrypt Passwords. Thats not enough, every other piece of browsing data should also be encrypted.

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[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

"full-disk encryption" is the search keyword you're looking for

[–] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

They refuse to do it because the idea has absolutely no merit to it. If there's a virus on your computer that could steal your data, it can just wait till you unlock that data to steal it. There is zero practical benefit to implementing your suggestion.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a little confused as to how that would help with privacy/security.

When your browser is open and 'unlocked' a virus could still read the data.

It's the same thing with full disk encryption, if you get a virus on the running system it doesn't matter.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't your computer disk encrypted already?

Otherwise you seem to want jails or sandboxes to protect each app, with access denied by default. That sounds more like Android, or possibly Qubes OS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

[–] mkhoury@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Or flatpak

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sandboxie might help? (For Windows)

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

Thanks but you should have told me about it earlier