On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:12:55 -0600
Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount <jorge.lopez.paramo...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > I started firefox on a remote xhost and it somehow
> > came up as a local instance (thru X?) with bookmarks
> > from a local client account... the remote account
> > was newly instanced and this was the first and
> > *only* time I've seen it happen.  But it did.
> 
> That's a feature, not a bug.    =)
> 
> When you start Firefox it somehow can figure out how to run locally  
> instead of remotely, if you need to run the remote Firefox you have to  
> use the -no-remote flag.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jorge.
> 

-new-instance doesn't do what it sez (no new task instance)
but -no-remote does prevent a remote instance from assuming
the local interface.   hmmm.  This sounds like badly translated
WinDos semantics.

Dhu



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