debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > 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.
How? If I install epiphany using alt then it sets itself as the default browser in just about every location I know about and some that I don't. These settings apply to all users on the system. You don't install things 'for a user'. -- Chris Green ยท
