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

Wed Aug 16 12:47:51 UTC 2006
José Traver <Jose.Traver at si.uji.es>

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


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