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VM is plenty of overhead and your use-case doesn’t really require that. If you want to effectively isolate browsers and for some reason using Firefox profiles isn’t enough (for me that was perfectly fine to have private and job profiles and just launching them with additional parameter specifying which profile like
firefox -P work
and I wrapped them in their dedicated .desktop files), learn about containers and Docker or Podman. You’ll get native performance, access to hardware acceleration and a native app window while also having the sandbox functionality. Plus, you’ll learn about containers, which opens a whole world of possibilitiesThanks for replying :)
I'm trying to learn how to use Docker at the moment, but not getting very far. I may be able to use it for this in the future, but for now I need to stick with what I know :)