> if [t]he browser have recursive write permissions to the `~/Downloads` folder, it can alter anything that any other application downloaded to it, and thus install whatever malware it wish in there.
The solution is to give each program which uses Downloads folder its own folder. On my system, I think there are about 2 programs which can write to that folder, so this is not that much.
If it really bothers you that you have ~/Downloads/Firefox and ~/Downloads/Chromium, then there are things like mhddfs which "merge" two directories -- browsers actually save to `~/.downloads/Firefox` and `~/.downloads/Chromium` and you have a single unified "~/Downloads" folder which shows files from both.
> if [t]he browser have recursive write permissions to the `~/Downloads` folder, it can alter anything that any other application downloaded to it, and thus install whatever malware it wish in there.
The solution is to give each program which uses Downloads folder its own folder. On my system, I think there are about 2 programs which can write to that folder, so this is not that much.
If it really bothers you that you have ~/Downloads/Firefox and ~/Downloads/Chromium, then there are things like mhddfs which "merge" two directories -- browsers actually save to `~/.downloads/Firefox` and `~/.downloads/Chromium` and you have a single unified "~/Downloads" folder which shows files from both.