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"textContent": "Thank you all for replying. My conclusion is that it is best to avoid installing browsers through Flatpak since Flatpak doesn’t support unprivileged user namespaces which is an important part of a browser’s internal sandbox. I will mark @any1’s answer as the solution.",
"title": "Is it best (for security) to install browsers via Flatpak or via a distribution's repositories on Linux?"
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