Running firefox remotely

[Loïc Grenié]

2009/10/21 stan <stanb at panix.com>:
> I would like to ssh to an Ubuntu machine from another *NIX X capable
> machine, and run firfox on the distnat machine. I have all the normal ssh X
> fowarding working corectly between the 2 machines, but when I do this, it
> seems as though firefox is actually executing on the locl machine. That is
> it's view of the network seems to be from that of the local machine, not
> the remote one.
>
> Am I doing somehting wrong?

    No, but remote-firefox asks your local-firefox to open a new window. It
  is a (sometimes inconvenient) feature. Fortunately you can disable it
  by launching

MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox

  on the remote machine. If you often use firefox on the remote machine,
  you can consider adding MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 as a default environment
  variable.

      Hope this helps,

              Loïc