{"id":75,"date":"2009-08-12T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ekers.free-online.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-08-12T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T10:45:12","slug":"darned-plugins-how-to-run-a-separate-copy-of-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/12\/darned-plugins-how-to-run-a-separate-copy-of-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Darned plugins &#8211; How to run a separate copy of Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently created a wordpress website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leylandlandscapes.co.uk\">www.leylandlandscapes.co.uk<\/a>, and I tried free hosting.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first free host trying to find a free host, and it is fraught with obstacles. The third one I tried, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.host-ed.net\">host-ed<\/a>, was the first that actually worked. Of course I wanted everything, but the resources provided were suitable: a MySql database, PHP, a decent amount of web space. I can now understand why free hosting isn&#8217;t as free as you think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are my pictures?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy biggest problem was that the pictures were missing.<\/p>\n<p>My first measure of how good an online service is, is the response when you ask them a question. Do they answer? When do they answer? Does it help? They did, and it did.<\/p>\n<p>The problem turned out to be my slightly paranoid firefox plugins. I have Adblock, and Noscript. Plus the Dansguardian content filtering at home. I needed a simple way to run firefox briefly without the plugins. My answer, being a linux user, was create another user, and run firefox under that account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are my steps for running a pristine firefox<\/strong><br \/>\nI have seen other ways of running firefox with new profiles. But this seems cleaner to me, keeping everything separated as a new user. YMMV.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a new user (try using useradd), say chewy. root user needs to do this.<\/li>\n<li>run the command<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nxhost +local:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> This will allow any local user to use your X display.<\/li>\n<li>Log in as new user. E.g.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>login chewy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make sure firefox knows where the X display is, and run firefox.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>export DISPLAY=:0.0<br \/>\nfirefox<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently created a wordpress website, www.leylandlandscapes.co.uk, and I tried free hosting. This was the first free host trying to find a free host, and it is fraught with obstacles. The third one I tried, host-ed, was the first that actually worked. Of course I wanted everything, but the resources provided were suitable: a MySql [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-hosting","category-linus-free-operating-system","category-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}