Asks before a link is (accidentally) opened in a browser. Links are opened in x-www-browser.
Currently only the Tor Browser starter from the tb-starter package (by Whonix developers) supports using open-link-confirmation. Shell wrappers could be written to support other browsers as well.
On an Anonymity Gateway (when the anon-gw-base-files package is installed), it honors the $EDITOR environment variable (falls back to mousepad if unset), asks if a file should be opened in an editor before opening it and informs, that opening links on a Gateway is unsupported for security reasons.
This package is produced independently of, and carries no guarantee from, The Tor Project.
1. Download the APT Signing Key.
wget https://www.kicksecure.com/keys/derivative.asc
Users can check the Signing Key for better security.
2. Add the APT Signing Key.
sudo cp ~/derivative.asc /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc
3. Add the derivative repository.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] https://deb.kicksecure.com bookworm main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list
4. Update your package lists.
sudo apt-get update
5. Install open-link-confirmation.
sudo apt-get install open-link-confirmation
Can be build using standard Debian package build tools such as:
dpkg-buildpackage -b
See instructions.
NOTE: Replace generic-package with the actual name of this package open-link-confirmation.
- A) easy, OR
- B) including verifying software signatures
open-link-confirmation requires donations to stay alive!