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