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

Wed Aug 16 14:32:48 UTC 2006
Andrew Hull <list at racc2000.com>

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