firejail firefox help

[Dave Howorth]

On 2016-05-12 19:23, Adam Funk wrote:
> I have a Firefox browser profile called "open", which has a few
> add-ons and basic bookmarks, but no restrictions on scripting, so I
> prefer to run it in firejail.  At the moment I'm using this command to
> launch it:
>
> firejail --private.keep=.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini,.mozilla/firefox/b7jxnp0d.open firefox -no-remote -P open
>
> Obviously when I want to make changes (e.g., changing the Ublock
> filters), I have to run Firefox with that profile outside of firejail,
> make the changes, & quit to save them.  Then the next run in firejail
> picks them up from the profile directory.
>
> This is great except for one problem: it's impossible to download
> anything deliberately, because the "Downloads" target directory is
> inaccessible outside the firejail.  Is there a way to add one writable
> persistent directory to this?  (I tried combining
> --private.keep=.mozilla.stuff and --private=Downloads, but that gave
> an error message.)

Never heard of firejail before so thanks for the heads up.

What was the error message? Have you tried a full path instead of a 
relative path?

Or for another possibility, according to https://firejail.wordpress.com/ 
"April 2016 – released Firejail test version 0.9.40-rc1 ... file 
transfers between sandboxes and the host system ..."

So what version are you running and how brave are you?

Cheers, Dave