Flatsonar

Web

by The GNOME Project

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Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0+ v51.0
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About

The web browser for GNOME, featuring tight integration with the desktop and a simple and intuitive user interface that allows you to focus on your web pages. If you’re looking for a simple, clean, beautiful view of the web, this is the browser for you. Web is often referred to by its code name, Epiphany.

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • owns desktop name org.gnome.Epiphany.WebAppProvider: can impersonate a desktop component
    --own-name=org.gnome.Epiphany.WebAppProvider
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • https://github.com/gotlougit/epiphany also publishes this app id
    publisher:collision
  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing (x3)
    source:unpinned
  • same name as org.gnome.Epiphany on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike
  • hosted by github.com/gnome, which owns the org.gnome namespace of org.gnome.Epiphany.Canary
    publisher:namespace

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