[CentOS] Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4

Wed Aug 16 13:12:59 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 2:53am, Anne Possoz wrote

>> Back in the day (read: before the latest firefox update), I used to be
>> able to ssh to a remote box, run 'firefox -local', and have that box fire
>> up its own firefox session even if I was running firefox on the system
>> from I which I sshed.  Those days seem to be gone.  No matter what I try, if
>> I've got firefox running on my local desktop, the remote firefox command just
>> fires off another instance of the local firefox session.
>
> This is relied to the problem I have using "firefox -P" on my
> local centos to try to start a new instance of firefox with a
> different profile.
>
> My solution is to start
> env MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -P
>
> Could you try that? I checked it through ssh and it works. Just
> that you have to chose the profile at start.

That works!  Yes, it requires an extra click.  But it does actually work. 
Thanks!

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University