Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:02:13 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Installing a browser is very different from installing something IN a
> browser.
>
> If you have two users A and B, and you install a new web browser (as
> root), and if for some reason this new web browser becomes the new
> x-www-browser alternative, then some applications may select it, which
> is one possible root cause for the problem that Chris Green is describing.
>
> It's also possible that some applications may select it as a default
> using their own individual heuristics, without going through the
> x-www-browser symbolic link. I can easily imagine some GUI app has a
> hard-coded list of browser names that it looks for, and it simply uses
> the first one that it finds while traversing that list.
>
> Now, suppose user A installs a new add-on in Firefox. This only goes
> into their own home directory, and will not be seen by user B in Firefox.
> This is what debian-user@howorth is describing.
Yes, I agree, but I'm not installing new add-ons in an existing
browser or anything like that. I'm simply (as root) installing
epiphany and it takes over all web browser functions from vivaldi.
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Chris Green
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