I think, firefox behaviour may concern security. I am curious to know if it is a (permitted!) misuse of the shared memory extension and if it is possible to disable this misuse.
I consider the answer of Jan Stary just as noise. Rod Am Sa., 29. Juni 2024 um 16:16 Uhr schrieb Roderick <[email protected]>: > > Long ago I wanted to run firefox on OpenBSD on an OpenBSD xterm > displayed on an X server > running on FreeBSD. I expected, of course, a firefox running on > OpenBSD displayed on my > FreeBSD X server. What else could I have expected? To my surprise, it > run the firefox installed > on FreeBSD. > > I found it annoying, it is not what I wanted, not what I expected, at > least not without warning and > asking me before. I would have wanted that, I would have issued the > command on my local machine. > > The whole time I asked me, how firefox did that, why X11 allowed it. > Now, I think here is the > answer: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/3515/how-do-i-launch-a-remote-firefox-window-via-ssh > > Is there a way to disable that behaviour as default? Is this "feature" > not a misuse of the > X shared memory extension? > > Rod.
