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Running Firefox as Another User, Using sudo

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 24, 2007

[ Thanks to Calum for this link.
]

“As the browser is one of the most common points of entry into a
system, it makes sense to do everything that is possible to secure
it.

“Any sane user will never browse the web as root (or an account
with Administrator access in Windows), as any malware would then be
able to do anything on the whole machine…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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