[ale] strange behavior of remote X firefox

[jkinney at jimkinney.us (Jim Kinney)]

Yes. That's the method. Whichever firefox is already open, the other one will not open. Local launch was always by buttun. Remote always by cli.

On March 28, 2016 2:54:22 PM EDT, "Stephen R. Blevins" <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:
>When you *do* want the remote firefox, can you, while logged in on the
>remote system, execute the CLI command /usr/bin/firefox ?
>
>Stephen R. Blevins
>stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>
>On 03/28/2016 02:11 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> Mozilla decided years ago that running firefox remote wasn't
>something
>> they liked, so if there is a local copy, that gets invoked instead.
>I've
>> done 10 min of research multiple times to find a way to stop that
>> behavior - never found one, sadly.  Drives me crazy - sometimes I
>WANT
>> the firefox on the remote system, not the local one.
>> 
>> Sounds like the student is having exactly the opposite issue than I
>do.
>> Hopefully, the fix for both is similar and you will share it? Please?
>> 
>> On 03/28/2016 12:58 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> A student was having issues with saving a file from firefox. It
>would
>>> download and was told to save to the desktop. File didn't appear on
>the
>>> desktop. Check the downloads on firefox and it could pull it up. Ah
>HA!
>>> The firefox was the remote firefox he launched over a remote ssh -X
>session.
>>>
>>> Oops. Not exactly. He had a firefox launched over a remote X session
>and
>>> used the LOCAL launcher to load a LOCAL firefox. It didn't. It
>loaded
>>> another REMOTE firefox.
>>>
>>> WTF?!?!?!?!?
>>>
>>> Closed all firefox. launched a local firefox. Verified it's a local
>>> (title bar has no remote machine and file saved where expected). Now
>>> back to running remote ssh -X terminal window to launch a remote
>>> firefox. Nope. Another LOCAL firefox launched instead.
>>>
>>> WTF!?!?!?!?!
>>>
>>> Hmm. Suspect gnome is being stupid. Remote system is a centos 6
>>> workstation. Local is a centos 7 workstation.
>>>
>>> Did a ssh -X to a different remote that actually had xterm. Launched
>>> xterm and then launched firefox from xterm. Did a local launch of
>>> firefox and got a local firefox. Remote system is NOT running gdm as
>>> it's not a workstation.
>>>
>>> Went back to other remote centos 6 system but it had no xterm.
>Loaded a
>>> gnome-terminal and launched a remote firefox. Local firefox launch
>>> loaded another remote one instead. 
>>>
>>> Pretty certain this is a gnome problem.
>>>
>>> Ideas and comments welcome. Not changing to KDE, though. Will
>rewrite
>>> this and throw it at gnome, centos and rhel bugzillas. 
>>>
>>> Hmm. did not test other applications.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>
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>you
>>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on
>his
>>> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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>>>
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