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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for |
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>>> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+, |
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>>> Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing? |
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>> Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check some financial websites, Firefox with |
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>> private browsing to do my banking and log in to work remotely (Citrix SSL VPN) |
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>> and Opera for very much everything else because of its speed and |
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>> configurability (although these days most browsers have caught up with Opera in |
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>> most respects). |
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>>> I guess you could achieve the same using different user profiles. For |
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>>> example `firefox --no-remote -P google` and `firefox --no-remote -P |
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>>> default`. |
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>> Ha! I didn't know that FF can handle different profiles! I better read on this |
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>> now. |
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> Pretty much all of the Xulrunner apps can do this. So Firefox, |
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> sunbird, thunderbird, seamonkey... |
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And have been able to for at least a decade, back to the Netscape |
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Navigator days, I think... at least Netscape Communicator for sure had |
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it, since roaming profiles was its big feature. |
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