Snowfox:White list firefox with gcj for intranets [was What next]

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:43:52AM +1200, David Mohring wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 23:46 -0700, Aaron Kurtz wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:24 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> > > > Maybe it's time to start the brainstorming for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora
> > > > Extras 5 - what major features are you willing to put effort into?
> > > And here are of few more of interest to me:
> > > 
> > > - Bugzilla #158657 Build totem's Mozilla plugin
> > > - Bugzilla #127537 Free software applet viewer plugin
> > 
> > http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/ is being worked on. The blocker is
> > the current lack of sandboxing.
> > 
> 
> Why not adapt the firefox source rpm to build an extra binary (
>   of /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/firefox-bin ) package called 
> Snowfox - a White list Firefox for intranets.

That's unnecessary.  gcjwebplugin already works as a small mozilla/firefox
plugin and the Java applet is running in a separate process.
To make gcjwebplugin really usable, AppletSecurityManager class needs to
be written (ATM it is just a dummy class that allows almost everything),
I guess some Java auditing needs to be done and SELinux policy written for
gcjappletviewer.

	Jakub