Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> > debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:  
> > > > songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:  
> > > > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > > ...    
> > > > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or
> > > > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for
> > > > > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the
> > > > > > changes it has made.    
> > > > > 
> > > > >   Chris, for something like testing i would just set up
> > > > > another user.
> > > > >     
> > > > I guess that's a possible way.  However my use of epiphany tends
> > > > to be "oh, this web page doesn't work in vivaldi, I'll try it in
> > > > epiphany", having to log out and log in to another user to do
> > > > this rather defeats the object.  
> > > 
> > > I simply have a terminal already running as another user (I start a
> > > terminal and then su - another_user) so I just have to type the
> > > browser name if I want to use it. Or use up-arrow to access the
> > > browser history. For me that seems to be a tolerable level of
> > > effort. 
> > How does that help?  The other user will have all the same default
> > browser settings that you do.  You can't install something for use by
> > one user and not another user, at least not using apt you can't.
> 
> I was responding to your point immediately before what I wrote, and
> what it avoids is having to log out and log in again as a different
> user. The other user does NOT have the same settings as me. They have
> their own set of plugins and settings as Tomas has pointed out. You
> very much can install something for one user and not for another in a
> browser.

How?  If I install epiphany using alt then it sets itself as the
default browser in just about every location I know about and some
that I don't.  These settings apply to all users on the system.

You don't install things 'for a user'.

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Chris Green
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