[ale] strange behavior of remote X firefox

[Jim Kinney]

Wow. That's a whole new meaning of "remote process".  Very interesting. Will test.

On March 28, 2016 3:14:06 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>On 03/28/2016 02:54 PM, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:
>> When you *do* want the remote firefox, can you, while logged in on
>the
>> remote system, execute the CLI command /usr/bin/firefox ?
>
>First thing I tried.
>
>Doesn't work.  It forwards the URL to the local firefox (or starts the
>local firefox).
>
>Looked at the firefox manpages - talk about useless.
>
>Wait ... something new added.
> -no-remote
>     Don't connect to any other running  instances  of  firefox.  Use
>     this  if  you want to run firefox in an entirely new process. By
>     default, firefox will delegate a command to an  already  running
>     instance.
>also
> -new-instance
>
>Wonder when that switch was added?
>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options
>
>Will need to test these.
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