When you need to do something on your computer that might be risky (like run a suspect executable) you can use a VM and feel comfortable safe in your ability to isolate it.
But how do you isolate your browser? There are so many cookies and identity bits in it that I want a bare-bones profile. It would be similar to the chrome-new command that someone posted previously, but it would let me pack in the non-identity parts of my experience:
- don't offer to save any passwords
- prompt for location on every download
- use the following ten search shortcuts
and maybe install an ad blocker (contains identiny information, but not much).
Is this possible short of using something like chrome-driver? Like can I create a temp profile, then a bash script to copy it to a new location every time I run the browser and use the blank copy?
Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.
But how do you isolate your browser? There are so many cookies and identity bits in it that I want a bare-bones profile. It would be similar to the chrome-new command that someone posted previously, but it would let me pack in the non-identity parts of my experience:
- don't offer to save any passwords
- prompt for location on every download
- use the following ten search shortcuts
and maybe install an ad blocker (contains identiny information, but not much).
Is this possible short of using something like chrome-driver? Like can I create a temp profile, then a bash script to copy it to a new location every time I run the browser and use the blank copy?
Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.