Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've always been able to ssh -X to a server, and then run firefox -no-remote, so that it runs ON THAT SERVER, NOT on my workstation. All of a sudden, I can't. Is that clearer? AFAIK, my manager hasn't put any new security in place (he'd have told me - mostly, he's adding logging). But the latest ff *seems* as though it's trying to read my home caches, not obeying what ff's own info says it will do.
Let me add one more thing: I have no trouble running other X, like xterm.
Firefox is an odd case in when you start it, it looks for an existing, running instance and if found, starts a new window in that process. I'm not sure how that relates to your issue, but it's not like most X
<snip> It should not relate. Yes, my home directory is NFS mounted; however, the ff -? shows <...> Firefox options <...> -no-remote Open new instance, not a new window in running instance. <...> It should open a new window, with the process running on the server, but opening the X window on my desktop. I've done this for years, and it does what it says.
Anyone else tried it, with the latest update of ff via yum?
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