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Bug 151930

Summary: Running firefox in ssh session launches local firefox
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Graham Murray <gmurray>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Graham Murray 2006-10-19 02:45:52 UTC 
When using ssh to run a session on a remote system and issuing the command 'firefox' in the ssh session, it launches an instance of firefox on the local system rather than running it on the remote system and using X forwarding to the display on the local system. This is undesirable as it does not give access to the profile (bookmarks, remembered passwords, cookies etc) belonging to user account on the remote system. Instead it uses the profile belonging to the user which ran the ssh session on the local system. In this particular instance, both local and remote systems are Gentoo ~x86.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-19 03:04:45 UTC 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223105