[ale] strange behavior of remote X firefox

[Stephen R. Blevins]

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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