security

Running Firefox as another user, using sudo

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.

* This is insane. If you do it, you deserve everything you get.

So, in Linux, of course I use my normal user account, and trust in the fact that Linux, on an AMD64 processor is fairly safe.

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