On 2014 Nov 26 (Wed) at 15:01:56 -0800 (-0800), Jason Adams wrote: :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. :
This feature has been around for a long time, longer than Firefox Sync has. Additionally, I've seen it even though I have never used Firefox Sync. -- How do I love thee? My accumulator overflows.
