[CentOS] run firefox via an ssh tunnel

Wed Nov 11 23:06:20 UTC 2020
R C <cjvijf at gmail.com>

yeah ..  it would need to run X11

On 11/11/20 4:04 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 17:45, R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do it all the time.
>>
>>
>> make sure you forward X11,  on the  ssh server side,  and login with
>> ssh -X me at myhost.whatever
>>
>> start firefox with:
>>
>> /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote    if you don't want the remote pages ending
>> up in your local browser
>>
>> or if you don't care, just run firefox without -no-remote
>>
>>
> Don't you have to make sure that the Firefox on the MacOS-X system is using
> X11? It normally uses the native MacOS windowing system which is not X.
>
>
>
>> or however you start firefox on a mac.
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On 11/11/20 3:39 PM, S Bob wrote:
>>> Hi all;
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to setup an ssh tunnel so I can run firefox on a remote
>>> laptop and have the display locally.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have 2 laptops
>>>
>>> local = CentOS 7
>>>
>>> remote = mac OSX 10.15.7
>>>
>>>
>>> I want to create an ssh tunnel on the local CentOS 7 laptop, then run
>>> firefox on the mac with the display showing up on the CentOS laptop.
>>>
>>> Is this doable?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
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