On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:29 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
Be aware though that Firefox seems to try to be clever. I use this
technique from home to access intranet web sites by first making an
inbound SSH connection. However, if I already have Firefox running
locally, then try to start a remote Firefox via the SSH connection, it
seems to want to action it via the local Firefox instance
That can be avoided by using "firefox -no-remote" as your command to
start Firefox. While the name of the option sounds counter-intuitive,
think of it as your command to run a new instance of Firefox, as opposed
to remotely controlling an already running instance (such as loading a
new address in a tab).
When you run Firefox, you don't actually run it directly, you're calling
its handler program. That handler is making a decision about how to use
Firefox.
See: man firefox
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a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.