On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> 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? The usual issue with firefox is that if you have an instance running and attempt to start another instance (perhaps with a different DISPLAY) it will instead tell the running instance to open a new window. I've only seen that in the reverse situation - where the remote host has the other copy and you don't see the new window and I'm not sure it makes sense for what you describe. In any case, using freenx and the nx client is a much nicer way to do remote GUI work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com