Quoting "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>: > I am doing some testing with XForms and I really need a separate instance > of Firefox, one that shares nothing with my primary instance that has > various reference works and web sites open, to test forms. Is this even > possible? I have a sense from the small bit of testing that I have done > that even with separate profiles and invoking the firefox process manually > from different terminal windows does not provide a completely separate > running instance on the desktop. > > Is there a way to do this? If so then how? Run them as different users with sudo. 1. Create a few extra linux user accounts 2. Give yourself sudo access to the other users 3. Run sudo -H -u <account name> firefox Notes: I do not give my browser accounts shells. If you are using acrobat reader plugin .. give the account a shell and open acroread once to accept the license, then you can change the shell back to /bin/false. Actually acrobat reader plugin does not work using this method. I use this primarily for allowing myself to have browsers with different versions of java .. so there is no java plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins .. but in ~<account name>/.mozilla/plugins I place the link to the appropriate java plugin. You probably have to create the per-user plugins directory yourself. You will need to grant the user accounts the ability to use the X server. Once you are logged in to Gnome/KDE open a shell and type "xhost local:" after login. There may be a way to have this persist, I've never looked into it. If you want sound to work you will need to adjust permissions on /dev/dsp as needed. Hope this helps. Barry