Leaving firefox running remotely through a ssh connection

[Christopher K. Johnson]

On 08/04/2010 11:01 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 4 August 2010 14:55, Paul Smith<phhs80 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Yes, my intention is to keep a constantly firefox session, which I
>> want to connect to at some point in time in the future. Thanks for
>> suggesting me VNC. I will try it, but meanwhile I have a question: can
>> the VNC session be seen by someone nearby the remote computer?
>>      
> Not if you start a new session (i.e., vncserver :1)
> It won't stop someone else connecting to the session you have started
> as long as they have the password you have entered when you created
> your first-ever VNC session.
>    
FYI vncviewer can take care of starting the ssh connection for tunneling 
if you use the -via option.
That simplifies making your vnc over ssh connection to a single command 
instead of two.