Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > 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.
Yes, I agree, but I'm not installing new add-ons in an existing browser or anything like that. I'm simply (as root) installing epiphany and it takes over all web browser functions from vivaldi. -- Chris Green ยท
