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

Peter Kjellström cap at nsc.liu.se
Mon Aug 14 07:07:21 UTC 2006


On Friday 11 August 2006 22:15, Joshua Baker-LePain 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

hmm.. -no-xshm works for me, never heard of -local :-)

/Peter

> 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.
>
> I've got several boxes running monitoring daemons reporting via http only
> to the localhost, so this was a handy feature for me.  Is there any
> official way to get it back?  If not, I guess I'll have to hack a
> 'localfirefox' script that doesn't do the nasty mozilla-xremote-client
> trick.
>
> Ah, progress... *sigh*
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