Firejail is a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, seccomp-bpf and Linux capabilities. 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 work in a SELinux or AppArmor environment, and it is integrated with Linux Control Groups.

Written in C with virtually no dependencies, the software runs on any Linux computer with a 3.x kernel version or newer. It can sandbox any type of processes: servers, graphical applications, and even user login sessions. The software includes sandbox profiles for a number of more common Linux programs, such as Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, VLC, Transmission etc.

The sandbox is lightweight, the overhead is low. There are no complicated configuration files to edit, no socket connections open, no daemons running in the background. All security features are implemented directly in Linux kernel and available on any Linux computer. To start the sandbox, prefix your command with “firejail”:

$ firejail firefox            # starting Mozilla Firefox
$ firejail transmission-gtk   # starting Transmission BitTorrent 
$ firejail vlc                # starting VideoLAN Client
$ sudo firejail /etc/init.d/nginx start

Project webpage: https://firejail.wordpress.com/

Download and Installation: https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/

Features: https://firejail.wordpress.com/features-3/

Documentation: https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/

FAQ: https://firejail.wordpress.com/support/frequently-asked-questions/

AppImage (https://appimage.org/) is a distribution-agnostic packaging format. The package is a regular ISO file containing all binaries, libraries and resources necessary for the program to run.

We introduce in this release support for sandboxing AppImage applications. Example:

$ firejail --appimage krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage

All Firejail sandboxing options should be available. A private home directory:

$ firejail --appimage --private krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage

or some basic X11 sandboxing:

$ firejail --appimage --net=none --x11 krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage

Major software applications distributing AppImage packages:

• Krita: https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/
• OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org/download/
• Scribus: https://www.scribus.net/downloads/unstable-branch/
• MuseScore: https://musescore.org/en/download

More packages build by AppImage developer Simon Peter: https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages

AppImage project home: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit

BitTorrent: deluge, qbittorrent, rtorrent, transmission-gtk, transmission-qt, uget-gtk

File transfer: filezilla

Media: vlc, mpv, gnome-mplayer

Office: evince, gthumb, fbreader, pix

Gitter, gThumb, mpv, Franz messenger, LibreOffice, pix, audacity, strings, xz, xzdec, gzip, cpio, less