Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 Jun 2014 06:33:12 Walter Dnes wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:02:02PM +0100, Mick wrote Taking this a step further I create additional one-off profile directories in /tmp, which are deleted when I reboot (this is a laptop), which ensures that tracing between sites does not happen. Here is more detail on my approach... 1)

[gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-22 Thread Walter Dnes
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