Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> >>> I've always been able to ssh -X to a server, and then run firefox >>> -no-remote, so that it runs ON THAT SERVER, NOT on my workstation. All >>> of a sudden, I can't. Is that clearer? AFAIK, my manager hasn't put any >>> new security in place (he'd have told me - mostly, he's adding logging). >>> But the latest ff *seems* as though it's trying to read my home caches, >>> not obeying what ff's own info says it will do. >> >> Let me add one more thing: I have no trouble running other X, like >> xterm. > > Firefox is an odd case in when you start it, it looks for an existing, > running instance and if found, starts a new window in that process. > I'm not sure how that relates to your issue, but it's not like most X <snip> It should not relate. Yes, my home directory is NFS mounted; however, the ff -? shows <...> Firefox options <...> -no-remote Open new instance, not a new window in running instance. <...> It should open a new window, with the process running on the server, but opening the X window on my desktop. I've done this for years, and it does what it says. Anyone else tried it, with the latest update of ff via yum? mark