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> Use different users and/or virtual machines if you want security.

The Internet is so important that for daily computer usage I, and probably everyone else, have a browser open at basically any point in time.

So do you want me to switch users between the $browser_user and $main_user every 5 minutes I need to do something outside of the browser?



>Do you want me to switch users between the $browser_user and $main_user every 5 minutes I need to do something outside of the browser?

xnest[1], ftfy

[1] https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/Xnest.1.html


I just run chromium as my main user (but usually with a temporary scripted --user-data-dir and HOME environment variable), because it is relatively secure.

And switching Linux consoles/X servers is just two key presses anyway.


Correction: usually it is three key presses: Control, Alt, F3; for example.




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