On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 03:53:18PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Ruben Safir composed on 2014-12-17 10:25 (UTC-0500):
I used to have to test sites all the time.
I still do.
You just open another x11 session with another user account and switch ctl alt f whatever to the desired display.
That's an option I routinely use for some tasks that isn't so good for others. The main reasons I ever use separate sessions are for:
1-different user, often to mitigate browser history clutter
2-To use a different screen resolution (main reason), often with panning (a nuisance in normal use)
Stuffing all this into firefox, which is a huge code base, was idiotic.
On the contrary, most web site developers are not Linux users, and so cannot run multiple sessions simultaeously using only one computer and screen.
SO I should use crap software because web developers are flat out stupid? And that is the problem in a NUTSHELL. All the recent problems can be traced to just this problem. WE KNOW THAT WINDOWS IS CRAP IN ITS BASIC DESIGN. And so is Apple. So we break every peice of software to be just as stupid as windows. We can't cut and paste correctly. We can't have securely designed software We can't have shell scriptings running the initiation We can't have kill signal work correctly We can't have X11 network aware applications We can't have functional virtual servers and everything have to have convoluted, over bloated GARBAGE that crashes and uses gigbyte memory footprints in order to work.... because some jackass web develoeprs can't function with a really functional computer envronment. This sucks and if this is the future of opensue and linux, not to mention systemd, gnome, kde, mono and mozilla, which is all but apears to be .... then there is no future in it. The future is to be James Knotts and to stuff yourself with a bunch of jaargon that you don't even understand and let your computer marketing department tell you what to do. This goes along with a generation that sees no problem being tagged, followed, classified and delivered for consumption by large organizations from the government to CVS and Walmart.
Also, Firefox is not just Firefox. Firefox is a Gecko, which shares core components with other Gecko products. Multiple profiles enable more than just developers.
Personally, I would be severely hamstrung if no-remote were not available. Most of the time I have at least 5 different Gecko profiles in use at once, with no less than a dozen tabs in each, most with far more.
What difference does it matter. It crashes every day now... Take a hint, BTW, turn off your history.
Each has large history and is used for unique task groups than would not be possible without different profiles. I certainly would be grossly inconvenienced by lack of copy & paste if I was always forced to use multiple X sessions and users to run multiple browser sessions, and I am certainly not alone in this regard. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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