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