The Open Sourcerer » X http://www.theopensourcerer.com The Magic of Open Source Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:11:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Remote Firefox over X/SSH http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/11/15/remote-firefox-over-xssh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remote-firefox-over-xssh http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/11/15/remote-firefox-over-xssh/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:02:03 +0000 Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/11/15/remote-firefox-over-xssh/ Here’s a quick tip…

I was trying to get a Firefox session running over an SSH connection between my desktop PC (Ubuntu 7.10) and the little server I’m building. The strange thing was, every time I typed firefox & at the command line prompt, it started Firefox all right; but it started a local (Ubuntu) instance of it with my local profile settings! One of the reasons I wanted to run a remote browser was so I could download files directly to that machine and so I could access some html docs on that box; as it is now headless.

A bit of Googling led me here, where the author used this command ( export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox -profilemanager ) &. After a bit of experimentation, and more Googling, for my purposes it can be simplified to this:

firefox -no-remote &

This assumes Firefox version 2 and that your SSH connection was made using ssh -X uname@host

Hope this helps someone else. It got me foxed for ages initially…

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