On 2017-07-30, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: > Le 07/30/17 à 20:47, Dan Hitt a écrit : >> I would like to run a second copy of firefox in debian, that is >> completely unconnected to the first. >> >> That is, the second copy should not share history, cookies, any kind >> of storage, passwords, configuration, or anything else with the first. >> It should be possible to send a signal to one (such as kill) without >> the other being aware of it. >> >> In essence it should run parallel to firefox like a clone (e.g., Pale >> Moon), except using the same binary. (But i'd be willing to copy the >> binary if there were an easy way to just change its name to firefox2 >> or something.) >> >> I suppose that i could do this with a virtual machine bur that seems >> very heavy weight. >> >> TIA for any clues on how to do this! >> >> dan >> > > You can define another profile then use > firefox -P profile
Yes, that's the way to go. > I use it adding -no-remote because I do not want the links automatically > opened to open in this instance. > I'm not quite following here. -no-remote allows you to run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously (profile1 and profile2 at the same time, let's say). However you cannot open external links in the -no-remote instance (link in an email, for example--perhaps that's what you mean by "do not want the links automatically opened to open in this instance"). I could imagine this restriction being prohibitive in some cases, and Sven's suggestion, which at first reading I thought unnecessarily complicated, might then be taken into account. -- “Certitude is not the test of certainty.” --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.