*Tor Browser* is only allowed to save the downloads and read the files that you specify in the file chooser of GNOME.
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<p>To prevent Tails from running out of memory and crashing, download very big files to the <emi>Persistent/Tor Browser</emi> folder. All tThe files that you download outside of the Persistent Storage are stored in memory (RAM), which is more limited.</p>
<p>To prevent Tails from running out of memory and crashing, download very big files to the <i>Persistent/Tor Browser</i> folder. The files that you download outside of the Persistent Storage are stored in memory (RAM), which is more limited.</p>
<p>In [[Tails 6.14.1|news/version_6.14.1]] (April 2025), we improved the previous confinement and you can now safely download to and read from any folder in your <i>Home</i> folder or Persistent Storage.</p>
This confinement relies on 2 security technologies: *[[!debwiki AppArmor]]* and the [XDG Desktop Portals](https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/) of *Flatpak*.
