[CentOS] Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4
Andrew Hull
list at racc2000.com
Wed Aug 16 14:32:48 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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!
>
I've been silently wanting this ability as well. I tried Anne Possoz's
solution, and I can't thank her enough.
Also, I dropped the '-P' switch and firefox still loads on the remote
boxen but without the profile selector.
Either way, thank you for the solution!
Andrew
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