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).