You can override its behavior my modifying the desktop file
(/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop in Gnome 3)
The statement 'Exec=firefox %u' is the line to modify.
You could place your modified copy in ~/.local/share/applications
I have not tried this, but it should work.
Instead of su -, use 'sudo -u <user> firefox', and update /etc/sudoers
not to require a password for this.
For instance:
you <user> = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/firefox
On 06/21/2015 12:20 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 6/20/2015 4:18 PM, Mike Small wrote:
Matthew Gillen <m...@mattgillen.net> writes:
going to start swapping if it can. What I want for desktop environments
is behavior like: if you run out of memory, kill the thing that's
hogging the most. My typical case is that if there is a process using a
ton of memory, it's probably doing something wrong (e.g. javascript, or
eclipse going into a death spiral because of the awful Android plugin),
and /that/ is what I want OOM-killer to murder.
I suppose the right answer is to wrap the problem programs in a script
so that every time I start them I can
echo 999 > /proc/[firefox-pid]/oom_score_adj
What about creating a second, less privileged user for running firefox
and using ulimit to keep it down to size? There are good reasons to not
run firefox as your main user anyway, at least not for general browsing.
I do this (minus the ulimit part), with the non-privileged firefox also
having restrictive plugins. For banking and a small number of other
sites I run firefox as my main user with no plugins. That way I don't
have to worry about librejs or requestpolicy messing up a financial
transaction. And if a site takes advantage of a firefox exploit it's
somewhat contained, assuming it's not my bank that hosts the exploit.
That's not a bad idea. I've found that if you use
su - <username>
then you can run X programs as another user without trouble.
Matt
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