On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 16:17 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:13:26 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > If I start Firefox with profile A, I might have cookies enabled by > > default and the history only includes Linux links. > > > > When using Firefox profile B, I perhaps have cookies disabled by default > > and the history only includes links to audio gear. > > > > So if I search the history for radio, I would get software related to > > radio by profile A and service manuals, semiconductor vendors by profile > > B, after doing research, bevor it was useful to decide what I should > > bookmark. > > > > And again, e.g. different security settings, one profile without > > add-ons, the other profile perhaps with 20 add-on. > > Ok. And how exactly using different users for these profiles limits you? > > What's so hard in running 'sudo -u user1 firefox' and 'sudo -u user2 > firefox'?
This would lead to "Error: cannot open display: :0.0". Sure, $ xhost +; sudo -u [...] does the trick, but simply using a profile, Firefox options -P <profile> Start with <profile>, you don't need to add another user, you don't need to type a password. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1387888168.5471.52.camel@archlinux
