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I use different browsers for sites like facebook and general browsing (specifically rekonq for facebook, firefox for others).
However, I find that Flash cookies are shared between browsers, and are not cleared when clear my browser cookies.
Flash cookies are kept in ~/.macromedia, and it's OK for me to clear this periodically with a little cron job. However, I would really like separate places for flash cookies from rekonq and firefox.
Does anyone know how to do this? Maybe there is an environment variable which allows this?
My second implementation option would be to make a chrooted environment for each browser or something like that.
I really don't want to run a whole virtual machine such as virtualbox just to run a web browser in it. Too big a memory footprint for me. Yes I know there are lightweight distros which can be installed in a VM for just this purpose, and cut/paste can work between VM and host machine, but this is way too clunky for me. I only want to isolate the .macromedia folder.
It never occurred to me to try to isolate the .macromedia directory. I just stomped on the cookies so that they can't be left. The Flash_Player directory under .macromedia is where the cookies are stored. I left that directory in place because I didn't want the flash player to recreate it.
But I took away all its permissions. No one (including root) has read or write permission on that directory. It hasn't hurt my ability to use flash, in any way I have detected.
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