Comments on: Dedicated separate Firefox windows

By: Daf

Daf — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:20:12 +0000

The Mozilla project that people have mentioned to make each tab run in a separate process is called Electrolysis.

By: Spudd86

Spudd86 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:45:56 +0000

Not yet… But they are working on it.

Mozilla is working on multi-process browsing, IIRC the plan is to initially split into two processes, one for the chrome, the other for content (so yes one page can still crash all the others, but not the entire browser, I imagine the plan is to have FF recover from this all by itself)

I suppose once that goes in it might be possible to make an extension that does what you want… but they are supposedly eventually moving to something like chrome, one process per page.

By: Osma

Osma — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:44:22 +0000

Sounds like you want IE6 – er, I mean Chromium. Nah, on a serious note, Firefox is pretty badly behind in the ballgame on some basic features like this. I tried to use that -no-remote -P solution for a while in a situation where I actually WANTED not just a separate process, but also separate extensions for some work. Even then it sucked, because later -new-window launched would latch on to the wrong process. Plus, it sucks up memory like mad. Pretty happy with chromium now, though still need firefox from time to time for some stuff.

By: Kevin Fenzi

Kevin Fenzi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:38:08 +0000

If you are running rawhide/fedora 12, why not use the cool sandbox command:

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31247.html

Then your firefox is totally selinux isolated from the rest of your machine/desktop.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000

Prism is exactly what you want for the job. It meets all of your stated requirements.

By: Laszlo Pandy

Laszlo Pandy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:44 +0000

sudo apt-get install prism

There are packages already setup for certain websites:
sudo apt-get install prism-google-mail
sudo apt-get install prism-google-reader
sudo apt-get install prism-facebook

To use a custom website, manually create a launcher for prism, or use this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665

By: bert

bert — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:29 +0000

Under Windows, I’d look at thinapp (application virtualization: application runs in a bubble, enabling multiple bubbles to exist with independent applications).

By: Ben Asselstine

Ben Asselstine — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:11:28 +0000

Maybe it’s time to give firefox a –new-window=URL option that opens a new window with the current profile. When you find a problem in free software and you’re a capable software developer, fixing the problem upstream can be fun and rewarding.

Other browsers get it right, FF should too.

By: Martin Marcher

Martin Marcher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:24 +0000

How about:

sudo -u testuser firefox

I know it’s only a workaround but you’d get a completely new environment. Even scriptable with creating a new user, starting firefox, waiting for it and the deleting the user…hmmm gotta do some shell scripting :)

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:12 +0000

Funny how everyone repeats the same suggestion over and over. And some trolls suggest Epiphany and Chromium. What about Midori or Kazehakase? Or switching over to Windows while you’re bored.