On 2023-07-21 22:44, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 7/21/23 06:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hmm, hadn't thought about different profiles supporting different sessions. That's an option.
You start it once with:
firefox --ProfileManager &
and you create a different profile. Then you can start it directly, or with the profile manager:
firefox -P Ggle_main --no-remote & firefox -P Amazon &
Yep,
Got all that -- and even had a couple of profiles from the big config switch days at version 59 (or somewhere around there). The part I missed was starting firefox with different profiles providing different PHP session_id() for each profile -- which would allow the testing of different accounts from the same browser using different user_id without having to worry about errors from the unique-constraint I placed on session_id in the postgres sessions table backend.
If you need to be absolutely sure nothing is shared between profiles, just start a second FF under a different user.
All and all the browser comparison was a good exercise. I hadn't done that in a decade. Bottom line is you now have 2 browsers (basically). You have:
Firefox (mozilla) Chromium (all others with different UIs wrapped around them) (there are Qt based browers like falkon I should probably look at)
The only difference between the chromium crowd of browsers are the options they offer and the attention to detail in their UI.
So far Opera wins the chromium type browser war.
When I have to, I use the true Chrome. The reason is, if there is a web that fails under FF, try the proprietary browser. There is a fair chance that those bad web developers tested with Chrome. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)