[clug] ssh vs. firefox

[David Schoen]

Firefox happily responds to -no-remote with one dash or two, the
problem is elsewhere, I'm fairly confident it's due to me running
clashing profiles (as in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<this part here
clashes>.default/).

Cheers,
Dave

2009/8/23 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>:
> David,
>
> The option is -no-remote (one dash) and it worked for me with the
> default profile. Thanks Rob.
>
> cheers
>
> David Schoen wrote:
>>
>> Just adding --no-remote didn't work for me which I think has something
>> to do with my using Unison to sync profiles between machines.
>>
>> If I use a profile in Firefox other than the one already running
>> locally it does work:
>> $ firefox -P dev --no-remote
>> (my normal profile is called "default")
>>
>> I think if the gibberish in front of "default" on your profile differs
>> between boxes what's on that wiki makes sense, otherwise you'll have
>> to create some extra profiles.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>> 2009/8/23 Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org>:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am on my workstation (f9). I ssh to my main server (f11).
>>>> I launch firefox from ssh command line and surely it opens a
>>>> window. But it is in fact another window of the workstation
>>>> firefox (so it runs on my ws).
>>>
>>> Hi Eyal. �I've long felt this is completely braindead behaviour by
>>> Firefox.
>>> �I cover it and how to make FF work rationally here:
>>>
>>> http://www.practicalsysadmin.com/wiki/index.php/Firefox
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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