I vaguely remember a while ago, somebody on this list asked about running separate instances of Firefox. I finally figured out how to run separate instances of Firefox, as ***COMPLETELY SEPARATE PROCESSES***. Namely, that you need ***A SEPARATE PROFILE FOR EACH INSTANCE***. Let's start with 2 profiles "trusted" and "default". From the command line, execute the following commands...
firefox -new-instance -P trusted & firefox -new-instance -P default & ps -ef | grep firefox You won't need the "&" if you launch from a desktop or window-manager launcher. In the above example, I launched 2 instances of Firefox, and verified their existance by running "ps -ef | grep firefox". So if you have some sites that you visit regularly, you can have a separate profile for each one. This has some advantages... 1) You can have totally different customized setups (including different add-ons) for each site. 2) Profiles, including cookies, are stored in separate directories. Therefore third-party cookies left by trackers when you're on site A using profile A, will not be readable by the same third-party when you're on site B, using profile B, making tracking you more difficult and less reliable... one... two... three... aaaaawwwwwww. 3) If you have a whole bunch of websites open, and one of them crashes Firefox, or hangs it so you need to kill it, you don't end up taking down all your browsers. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
