On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:02:13 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > 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.
Installing a browser is very different from installing something IN a browser. If you have two users A and B, and you install a new web browser (as root), and if for some reason this new web browser becomes the new x-www-browser alternative, then some applications may select it, which is one possible root cause for the problem that Chris Green is describing. It's also possible that some applications may select it as a default using their own individual heuristics, without going through the x-www-browser symbolic link. I can easily imagine some GUI app has a hard-coded list of browser names that it looks for, and it simply uses the first one that it finds while traversing that list. Now, suppose user A installs a new add-on in Firefox. This only goes into their own home directory, and will not be seen by user B in Firefox. This is what debian-user@howorth is describing.
