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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:54:51
Message-Id: CA+czFiAD=gbpV2QfbYpPdgm4yjeZ0ivMERA8+WKHDGLEUsGB-A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes by Mick
1 On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
3 >
4 >> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
5 >> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+,
6 >> Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing?
7 >
8 > Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check some financial websites, Firefox with
9 > private browsing to do my banking and log in to work remotely (Citrix SSL VPN)
10 > and Opera for very much everything else because of its speed and
11 > configurability (although these days most browsers have caught up with Opera in
12 > most respects).
13 >
14 >
15 >> I guess you could achieve the same using different user profiles. For
16 >> example `firefox --no-remote -P google` and `firefox --no-remote -P
17 >> default`.
18 >
19 > Ha!  I didn't know that FF can handle different profiles!  I better read on this
20 > now.
21
22 Pretty much all of the Xulrunner apps can do this. So Firefox,
23 sunbird, thunderbird, seamonkey...
24 --
25 :wq

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>