Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> > Chris Green wrote:
> > ...  
> > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or
> > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for
> > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes
> > > it has made.  
> > 
> >   Chris, for something like testing i would just set up
> > another user.
> >   
> I guess that's a possible way.  However my use of epiphany tends to be
> "oh, this web page doesn't work in vivaldi, I'll try it in epiphany",
> having to log out and log in to another user to do this rather defeats
> the object.

I simply have a terminal already running as another user (I start a
terminal and then su - another_user) so I just have to type the browser
name if I want to use it. Or use up-arrow to access the browser
history. For me that seems to be a tolerable level of effort.

> It might also take me down a never ending trail of 'is it the
> environment/settings or is it the program?'.  :-)
> 
> I guess some sort of chrooted environment to install it (epiphany) in
> might work (though still gives the environment/settings question).

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