Sunday, 27 May 2007

keeping a second browser

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Keeping a second browser that does not contain all the cookies and settings that
your everyday-browser has but the proxy-settings for privoxy/tor that you don't want
in your normal browser is a good idea.
The problems begin when you realize that you cannot simply open another firefox-window
with a different profile.

This is what you should do for firefox:
  • while your everyday-firefox is running execute "firefox -ProfileManager"
  • create a new profile "anonymous" in another directory
  • Create yourself a link "firefox -P anonymous" to start your anon-firefox in parallel to your normal firefox
  • configure it for privoxy, cookie-deletion, not remembering everything,...

Here are a few notes on what we found out...

* google-calendar does not work with mozilla or konqueror, only firefox and co.
* google-analytics does not work with mozilla or konqueror, only firefox and co.
* google-spreadsheets does not work with mozilla
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