PrivateFox

Password protected Firefox. A simple script to password-protect your firefox browser. This works by encrypting a firefox profile directory. After entering a pasword the folder get's decrypted and firefox starts with the decrypted profile folder.

Requirements

• A gtk desktop with zentity installed
• Firefox browser
• encfs for encryption

Documentation

Install

Check if curl or wget is installed on your machine and choose one of the following scripts. Just copy and paste it into your terminal.

wget

wget https://github.com/janstuemmel/privatefox/archive/master.tar.gz -O - | tar zxf - && \
sudo mv privatefox-master /opt/privatefox && \
cp /opt/privatefox/privatefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/privatefox.desktop

curl

curl -L https://github.com/janstuemmel/privatefox/archive/master.tar.gz | tar zxf - && \
sudo mv privatefox-master /opt/privatefox && \
cp /opt/privatefox/privatefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/privatefox.desktop

After installation, launch Privatefox with your window manager. The password is set on the first start.

Uninstall

This simply removes all the installed files without the encrypted profile directory.

rm ~/.local/share/applications/privatefox.desktop && \
sudo rm -rf /opt/privatefox 

Change password

Close your Privatefox browser and open a terminal:

# goto privatefox config folder
cd ~/.privatefox
# use encfsctl to change your password
encfsctl passwd profile.encrypted

Resources

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License

MIT