Customizing Firefox in Disposable VMs

@bill (& others): Since you mentioned Google, is there a tracking/anonymity concern here?

If you run firefox in the AppVM, you’ve created a profile, which will then be reused by any DispVM based on that AppVM. There have been concerns expressed on the web (I forget now where I saw this) that tracking can be done by firefox profile, which if true would link all your activities across all the DispVMs…

Workarounds would include:

  • Never run firefox in the AppVM, and use firefox’s startup scripting to set the search engine you want; or

  • Create a startup script in the AppVM that nukes any firefox profiles