James B. Byrne wrote: > I have, to me, perplexing situation. I am attempting to run Firefox > on a CentOS-6.3 virtual machine to which I am connected using an SSH > link with X-Forwarding enabled. (ssh -Y userid at host.domain.tld). > > The reason I wish to do this is that the vm is used for development an > my code coverage analysis tool produces a html format report which is > read via the file:// protocol. I thought that if I ran Firefox on > that host then the Firefox window would open on my local machine, > which it does. I also thought that since that Firefox window was > actually running as an instance on the remote vm that the file:// > protocol for that Firefox would seek out files on the vm's filesystem, > which it does not. Instead that Firefox instance searches the local > machine's filesystem and not that of the vm from which it was > launched. > > This seems counter-intuitive to me. What is going on? > firefox -P --no-remote The -P is because, assuming you have firefox running, it'll complain about that. Tell it to create a new profile or whatever; I have a test one (and one for CUPS on yet another machine..... mark