[CentOS] run firefox via an ssh tunnel

Wed Nov 11 22:56:42 UTC 2020
S Bob <sbob at quadratum-braccas.com>

I can ssh -X myuser at theremote-mac

but I cannot run /usr/bin/firefox.


I can run "open -a Firefox" on the mac but then it just opens firefox on 
the mac


Thoughts?



On 11/11/20 3:45 PM, R C 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
>
>
> 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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