Long ago I wanted to run firefox on OpenBSD on an OpenBSD xterm displayed on an X server running on FreeBSD. I expected, of course, a firefox running on OpenBSD displayed on my FreeBSD X server. What else could I have expected? To my surprise, it run the firefox installed on FreeBSD.
I found it annoying, it is not what I wanted, not what I expected, at least not without warning and asking me before. I would have wanted that, I would have issued the command on my local machine. The whole time I asked me, how firefox did that, why X11 allowed it. Now, I think here is the answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3515/how-do-i-launch-a-remote-firefox-window-via-ssh Is there a way to disable that behaviour as default? Is this "feature" not a misuse of the X shared memory extension? Rod.
