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Re: Off-topic: Gmail Grrrr.



On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 15:40 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 18:04 +0400, Reco wrote:
> > I wrote "one runs two instances of firefox with different profiles
> 
> and I replied that you can start your default browser with a profile
> too. The issue you pointed out is the same for the profile approach and
> another user account approach. If you want to open the link by the
> browser that is intended for a special history, you need to check the
> link for keywords, it doesn't matter what approach you use. The script
> simply checks for one keyword to open a browser that is able to play
> flash thingies. You can do this with many keywords and then chose a
> browser by profile or by another account that should be opened.
> 
> The main thing is
> 
> - KISS
> - a user has got no root privileges or assumed the user s admin too,
>   than it's simply nonsense to become root and too add another user.
> 
> Sometimes it's useful to add another user and sometimes it's not. I
> marked it as OT, because having another account for another family
> member is useful, but having other accounts for profiles, for different
> work-flows is completely wrong.
> 
> I'm in in passing and English isn't my native language, so that you
> missed the point of what I try to explain might be my bad.

PS:

Sometimes it's even more useful if a family does share one account with
different settings. It belongs to the things they want to share or not
want to share.



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