On 06/21/2017 04:09 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Maybe John has that sort of stuff in his profile, that would explain why his setup reacts differently. I can only confirm the behaviour Carlos has described, even across widely varying openSUSE's. To get a remote firefox, I had to use '-no-remote' which gives me a much slower firefox, the host machine is also indicated in the windows title "Mozilla Firefox <@office34>". Exactly.
And it has been that way for ages. I found about this "feature" the first time I tried, expecting to get the server machine Firefox, and I had to ask here about this strange thing, and I was told that Firefox works that way, and to use "-no-remote" to disable.
I have no such settings in my profile, i've greped it, looked at firefox startup command lines, firefox profiles, etc. Can't find any such setting. I think there has to be more going on here than just a firefox setting. This sounds like a HUGE security flaw, if firefox can reach back across the ssh connection into my local machine, and feel around for an instance of itself (running or not) and launch it locally when I asked it to run remotely. There is something horribly broken about that. I'm glad it doesn't work for me. I'd be interested to see just what ssh options allow this, so that I can make a mental note never to turn them on. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.