On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 09:25:53PM +0200, Radisson via Dng wrote:
> 
> firefox has the idea to check if some other instance is running and use
> that instead.
> That causes some wired behavior. try
> firefox --no-remote
> 

Interesting.  Makes me wonder if, when firefox is started with a 
file:/// style URL it bothers to pass the content of that file to the 
remote firefox...  Probably not

-- hendrik
.
> 
> 
> Am 19.05.21 um 14:47 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> > I ssh -X from my laptop (midwinter) to my server, april.
> > On april I start a browser.
> > Of course it displays on my laptop because of the -X,
> > I navigate to my home directory (I have one on each machine)
> > 
> > When I do this with chromium I get my home directory on april, as expected.
> > When I do it with firefox-esr, I get my home directory on midwinter, my
> > laptop.
> > 
> > Evidently starting firefox-esr on april manages to actually start it on
> > midwinter...
> > 
> > How can it so this?  How does it even know to do this?
> > 
> > It's clearly more efficient if I want to look at files on the world-wide
> > web.
> > 
> > But not what I want if I want to examine files on the server.
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Dng mailing list
> > Dng@lists.dyne.org
> > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dng mailing list
> Dng@lists.dyne.org
> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
_______________________________________________
Dng mailing list
Dng@lists.dyne.org
https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Reply via email to