On 11/26/2014 07:12 AM, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >
Feature or bug, it just sounds wrong and potentially dangerous to me. Are we sure the Firefox Sync feature wasn't in play here? (This does not appear to happen with an ssh connection). -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
