[ale] strange behavior of remote X firefox

[DJ-Pfulio]

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.
> 
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