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everdrive • today at 1:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Sounds like containers and potentially adblocking and js blocking prevent this. For my part, I use linked in on my "god dammnit I hate corporate websites so much" browser which is used only for medical bill pay and amazon / wal mart purchases and then monthly bills. Could LinkedIn get something from me there? Potentially, but they're also not really following me around the web. I think given this I'll go install a 3rd browser for linkedin only, or maybe finally just delete my account. It never got me a job and it's a cesspool.

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notafox • today at 2:08 PM

You can use Firefox with different profiles and configure it to launch particular profile directly, without launching default profile and using about:profiles.

Firefox with a non-default profile can be created like that:

  ./firefox -CreateProfile "profile-name /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-dir/"
  # For linkedin that would be:
  ./firefox -CreateProfile "linkedin /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/linkedin/"
And you can launch it like that:

  ./firefox -profile "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-dir/"
  # For linkedin that would be:
  ./firefox -profile "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/linkedin/"
So, given that /usr/bin/firefox is just a shell script, you can

    - create a copy of it, say, /usr/bin/firefox-linkedin
    - adjust the relevant line, adding the -profile argument
If you use an icon to run firefox (say, /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop), you'll need to do copy/adjust line for the icon.

Of course, "./firefox" from examples above should be replaced with the actual path to executable. For default installation of Firefox the path would be in /usr/bin/firefox script.

So, you can have a separate profiles for something sensitive/invasive (linkedin, shops, etc.) and then you can have a separate profile for everything else.

And each profile can have its own set of extensions.