James B. Byrne wrote:
> I have, to me, perplexing situation. I am attempting to run Firefox
> on a CentOS-6.3 virtual machine to which I am connected using an SSH
> link with X-Forwarding enabled. (ssh -Y userid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
>
> The reason I wish to do this is that the vm is used for development an
> my code coverage analysis tool produces a html format report which is
> read via the file:// protocol. I thought that if I ran Firefox on
> that host then the Firefox window would open on my local machine,
> which it does. I also thought that since that Firefox window was
> actually running as an instance on the remote vm that the file://
> protocol for that Firefox would seek out files on the vm's filesystem,
> which it does not. Instead that Firefox instance searches the local
> machine's filesystem and not that of the vm from which it was
> launched.
>
> This seems counter-intuitive to me. What is going on?
>
firefox -P --no-remote
The -P is because, assuming you have firefox running, it'll complain about
that. Tell it to create a new profile or whatever; I have a test one (and
one for CUPS on yet another machine.....
mark
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