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

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Wed Aug 16 13:13:57 UTC 2006


On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 2:47pm, José Traver wrote

> 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
>> 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*
>> 
>
> Did you try this in your X-forwarded ssh session?
>
> firefox -display $DISPLAY

That still opens another window of the local instance.

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


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