XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:03:26 +0100, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :   
      
      
   >> The beauty of using any given web browser for only one thing is that one   
   >> thing is set up perfectly within that browser, for privacy & security.   
   >   
   > That's like using a different video player for each type of videos.   
      
   Hi Herbert,   
      
   I respect your acumen. I respect your philosophy. I listen to you.   
   I agree with you always. That doesn't mean I use the %PATH% just because   
   you do things that way - but I UNDERSTAND *why* you use the %PATH% to run   
   all your batch files - just as you UNDERSTAND *why* I use the AppPaths key.   
      
   We can each fully UNDERSTAND each other, even as we philosophically sway in   
   different ways. Here you suggest, apparently, different bookmarks files,   
   one per browser, which is how most people do things so I UNDERSTAND that.   
      
   But I suggest a single bookmarks file for all web browsers, which is simply   
   a different philosophy - which I'm sure you UNDERSTAND the logic of, right?   
      
   > And you have to install the updates for all your browsers.   
      
   Back to the problem at hand, you are the only one who suggested a solution   
   to the problem because you are the only one who UNDERSTOOD the problem set.   
      
   I love that your suggestions are applicable to billions of people.   
   And not just to me.   
      
   That's the best kind of solution - which EVERYONE can easily benefit from!   
      
   Your suggestion was a huge step in resolution, which everyone can use of:   
    a. firefox about:config   
    b. view_source.editor.external (change from the default of false to true)   
    c. view_source.editor.path C:\path\to\your\favorite\editor.exe   
    d. firefox file:///C:/sys/bookmarks.html   
    e. Control+u   
      
   I *love* that everyone can use your suggested solution to their advantage!   
      
   With the bookmarks.html file bookmarked in Firefox, users can, in a single   
   step of "control+u", edit their bookmark file without needing to use either   
   the %PATH% or the AppPaths registry key. That's fantastic! Thank you.   
      
   > You can create as many profiles you like in Firefox.   
      
   Again, you UNDERSTOOD the reason for using many browsers is they're each   
   set up perfectly for one task (or web site) and one task (or site) only!   
       
      
   There is no cross-pollination of cookies, for example, which is a huge boon   
   to privacy. The disadvantage, of course, is they each can use different   
   bookmarks syntax, which I get around by having a single bookmarks.html   
   file.   
      
   Partly seriously & yet mostly in jest, might I philosophically muse by   
   contorting your words (to make the same point you were trying to make) of   
    "That's like using a different _bookmark file_ for each web browser."   
    "And you have to _manage separate bookmarks_ for all your browsers.   
      
   My point of the jest above is that I could just as well philosophically   
   muse that having more than one bookmarks file (one for each browser) is   
   like having more than one video player (one for each type of video).   
      
   We both understand the philosophy of using one browser (in this case,   
   Firefox) in ways that it can "play different types of tasks".   
      
   Doing a variety of tasks, after all, is why EVERYONE on the planet has a   
   web browser on every platform - which is a feat few apps can achieve.   
      
   However... as I'm sure you quite well UNDERSTAND, having any one browser do   
   multiple things, opens the user up to privacy-loss cross pollination.   
      
   The reason I use multiple browsers is to hinder that privacy-loss cross   
   pollination, but reading ahead, I see you UNDERSTOOD that problem set too!   
      
   > Make one [firefox] your default profile and start the others by:   
   > firefox.exe -profile "profile_path"   
      
   This is a *great* idea, since it (in theory) has 2 (3?) huge advantages!   
    1. It "should" prevent that privacy-loss cross pollination, right?   
    2. It also means I only need to learn one web browser's peculiarities.   
    3. In addition, I might even get away with ONE master bookmarks.html!   
      
   > You can also have more than one installations of Firefox on a computer.   
   > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-re   
   ove-switch-firefox-profiles   
   > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions   
      
   Thank you for UNDERSTANDING the problem set, which addresses (I think) the   
   three main issues everyone should have with the use of browsers on Windows.   
      
    1. It addresses the privacy-loss cross-pollination problem (I think).   
    2. It means we only have to learn peculiarities of just firefox alone.   
    3. It can be set up for a single master machine-specific bookmarks file!   
      
   Given your suggestion of multiple instances of Firefox (whether via   
   profiles or by executables) has multiple advantages, it's worth exploring.   
      
   Thank you for not only understanding the problem set, but also for   
   proposing a solution which may be simpler than the one I am currently using   
   of multiple browsers to prevent cross pollination of privacy losses.   
      
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