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A poor mans container (at least under unix-alikes) is simply running the program as another user with 'su' or 'sudo'.

• Hitton 7y ago
  That's too complicated. Use profiles for same result without having to use another user. firefox -new-instance -P
  • edoceo 7y ago
    I do this so frequently that I wrapped FF (and chrome) with a PyGTK starter, each profile with an icon. Less clicks to launch a new session of my preferred flavor
    • bryan_w 7y ago
      There use to be something called prism (not that one) that would do exactly this. The project was abandoned a few years ago sadly and I couldn't get it to work under a recent Ubuntu
    • wutbrodo 7y ago
      For those unaware, this interface already exists this simply in the browser's UI (the difference being that your approach allows launching from desktop)
      • edoceo 7y ago
        In FF each profile is a different directory (good) for Chrome I force it to specific user-settings so there is no cross contamination. And yes, it's basically a trivial interface shortcutting that FF built tool.
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  • cpeterso 7y ago
    You can also create and launch new profiles from a running instance of Firefox on the about:profiles page.