On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:29 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Be aware though that Firefox seems to try to be clever. I use this > technique from home to access intranet web sites by first making an > inbound SSH connection. However, if I already have Firefox running > locally, then try to start a remote Firefox via the SSH connection, it > seems to want to action it via the local Firefox instance
That can be avoided by using "firefox -no-remote" as your command to start Firefox. While the name of the option sounds counter-intuitive, think of it as your command to run a new instance of Firefox, as opposed to remotely controlling an already running instance (such as loading a new address in a tab). When you run Firefox, you don't actually run it directly, you're calling its handler program. That handler is making a decision about how to use Firefox. See: man firefox -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
