firefox broken

[Dave Howorth]

Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Hi Colin,

Hi Franz,

> When you launch firefox on the remote machine, try using this command:
> firefox -no-remote

Ah-ha! Thank you, I had forgotten this option. When I start it like this
it behaves well, so it does seem to be an interaction between firefox on
ubuntu and the profile on my desktop.

> When firefox is already running on the local machine, launching firefox 
> on the remote machine, just opens a new local instance. Using the given 
> command, firefox is launched on the server.

There's one other case, which is the one that was causing me grief. When
started without -no-remote but when there is no firefox instance on the
'local' machine (i.e. where the display is), it starts an instance on
the remote machine rather than creating an instance on the local machine
but I believe it uses the local profile (I can't check right now).

Anyway, always starting it with -no-remote gives me the effect I want so
I'll just use that.

Cheers, Dave