Chrome does not do it either but are we supposed to be the ones that start a new trend or the ones that follow the trend?
I made a post into their feature request section about how important it is for privacy and security. It is perfectly possible to do but they are not interested in doing.
What I asked was that they provide a feature that allows users to opt in to encrypt all browsing data including history, passwords, cookies, etc. With this feature I can only access my browser information after I open up Firefox and provide my encryption password.
How would this help? Well, there could be viruses that can read Firefox browsing history and cookies and send that to the server. With this feature enabled, one can be even more safer.
There is an option to encrypt Passwords. Thats not enough, every other piece of browsing data should also be encrypted.
Sandboxie might help? (For Windows)
Thanks but you should have told me about it earlier
To protect it from … what attack are you stopping here? If you don’t know, and it sounds like you don’t know, then forget it.
If someone roots your device, you still lose. If someone takes your device while you’re browsing, you still lose. If your hard drive is unencrypted, you still lose.
“full-disk encryption” is the search keyword you’re looking for
I’m a little confused as to how that would help with privacy/security.
When your browser is open and ‘unlocked’ a virus could still read the data.
It’s the same thing with full disk encryption, if you get a virus on the running system it doesn’t matter.
Isn’t your computer disk encrypted already?
Otherwise you seem to want jails or sandboxes to protect each app, with access denied by default. That sounds more like Android, or possibly Qubes OS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
Or flatpak
They refuse to do it because the idea has absolutely no merit to it. If there’s a virus on your computer that could steal your data, it can just wait till you unlock that data to steal it. There is zero practical benefit to implementing your suggestion.
