remote mozilla execution starts local one?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Fri Feb 11 17:15:12 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Most X programs can be started remotely through ssh and they actually
> run on the remote machine with a local window displayed through ssh
> forwarding.  However, I just noticed that if I have mozilla running
> locally, trying to start it remotely actually opens a new window
> running from the local copy.  Is this a bug or feature?  Should I
> expect that from any other programs?  (Usually when I start a remote
> program I want it to run where I started it so I can test routing,
> firewalling differences, etc.).

Yeah - me too..

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143762

using 'mozilla -foobar' avoids this bad behavior for me.

Satish




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