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Re:Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access by kitsunesoba on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:19AM (#35167914)
For what it’s worth, mac apps have had disk access permission prompts (along with prompts for several other permissions) for a while now. Its permission system isn’t perfect, but it’s a far cry from unpermissioned access.

Windows and Linux do have a way to go in this regard, though. I’ve seen efforts from the Elementary OS team to include some form of permissions in their distro but I’ve not seen it elsewhere in desktop OSes aside from macOS.

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Re:Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access by vetinari on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:22AM (#35169715)
> but I’ve not seen it elsewhere in desktop OSes aside from macOS.

Flatpack-ed applications on Linux do have similar sandbox.

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Re:Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access by c-hendricks on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @03:58PM (#35173879)
Windows does as well. But like Flatpak, I think they're handled at install time, not at-access time.
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