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.

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

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 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 -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.

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

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

Close your Privatefox browser and open a terminal:

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

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