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Firejail

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Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

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  • Linux
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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Sandbox
  3.  Virtualization
  4.  How Internet Works

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    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  588 Forks
  •  457 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Firejail, and it has gotten 34 likes

Firejail was added to AlternativeTo by LT on Sep 3, 2015 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

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hansencomputers
  
Top positive commentDec 22, 2019

Using Firejail on my Linux Mint system, I like the added security of running the Firefox browser in the fully private sand-boxed mode. The world is a better place with security enhancements like Firejail.

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What is Firejail?

Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.

Firejail can sandbox any type of processes: servers, graphical applications, and even user login sessions. Written in C with virtually no dependencies, it should work on any Linux computer with a 3.x kernel version.

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