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> it won't work if you have Firefox already open

now try and go ahead how you could isolate these instances so they cannot see each other. this leads into a rabbit hole of bad design.



> now try and go ahead how you could isolate these instances so they cannot see each other. this leads into a rabbit hole of bad design.

Okay, done:

  PROFILEDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
  firefox --no-remote  --profile "$PROFILEDIR" --screenshot $PWD/output.png https://xkcd.com
  rm -r "$PROFILEDIR"
What's the rabbit hole?


Whats with the dbus interface?


What?

(If you're trying to point out that two firefoxes are capable of talking to each other via system IPC, then yes, fully isolating any two programs on the same machine requires at least containers but probably full VMs, which has nothing to do with Firefox itself, and you'd need to explain why in this situation we should care)




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