Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > 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. > How does that help? The other user will have all the same default > browser settings that you do. You can't install something for use by > one user and not another user, at least not using apt you can't.
I was responding to your point immediately before what I wrote, and what it avoids is having to log out and log in again as a different user. The other user does NOT have the same settings as me. They have their own set of plugins and settings as Tomas has pointed out. You very much can install something for one user and not for another in a browser.
