Hi All,

I'm having a problem with Firefox that I can't seem to figure out how
to resolve. Basically I have Firefox running on my workstation
(Solaris 9), let's call that hostA. I ssh (with a -X) to another
Solaris 9 host, let's call that hostB. I want to launch another
instance of Firefox on hostB and have it display on my workstation
hostA. When I launch Firefox on hostB, what I think happens is that
through the X connection, Firefox on hostB sends a request to Firefox
on hostA to open a new browser window which is not what I want.

I have different home directories on hostA and hostB, so the only way
that I can think of that the two instances of Firefox are talking is
through X. I've tried starting Firefox with the -ProfileManager
option but that didn't help. Any other ideas?

Thanks!
-Ben

Ben wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having a problem with Firefox that I can't seem to figure out how
> to resolve. Basically I have Firefox running on my workstation
> (Solaris 9), let's call that hostA. I ssh (with a -X) to another
> Solaris 9 host, let's call that hostB. I want to launch another
> instance of Firefox on hostB and have it display on my workstation
> hostA. When I launch Firefox on hostB, what I think happens is that
> through the X connection, Firefox on hostB sends a request to Firefox
> on hostA to open a new browser window which is not what I want.
>
> I have different home directories on hostA and hostB, so the only way
> that I can think of that the two instances of Firefox are talking is
> through X. I've tried starting Firefox with the -ProfileManager
> option but that didn't help. Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks! -Ben



Hi,

Starting firefox with the --no-remote command line flag should solve this.

I have a shared NFS home directory so I get the "profile in use" error
at startup on the second server; but using a different profile works
fine. Since you have different home directories, you will have different
firefox profiles on hostA and hostB so you will not get this warning.

Let me know if this works for you. I used Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Solaris 10.

Ian