remote firefox

[Andras Simon]

On 10/29/07, Stephen Croll <scroll at airmail.net> wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
> > I'd like to start Firefox on a remote machine (FC5) and have it
> > display locally (F7). But whenever I try, a new window of the locally
> > running FF comes up. It seems that the startup script is too clever
> > (or I'm too dumb). (DISPLAY is fine, I can use other remote X programs
> > without problems.)
> >
> Try:
>
>    MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox
>
> Presuming there's no firefox running for that user on the remote machine.

Thanks, this is it!

The only problem is that it works only if there's no firefox running
_locally_ for the user with the same username as the remote one's. But

MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -P default

solves that problem, too.

Andras