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Forwarding Firefox over X11 _sometimes_ works. Sometimes Firefox on the remote machine will try to join the session of your local firefox -- but fail and then c
by inetknght 7y ago
Forwarding Firefox over X11 _sometimes_ works. Sometimes Firefox on the remote machine will try to join the session of your local firefox -- but fail and then complain that there's Firefox already running. Adding `--new-instance` helps if Firefox is running in a container and X11 socket file is forwarded to the container but it doesn't seem to help if X11 is forwarded over SSH.
- jabl 7y agoTry '-no-remote'. Or was that '--no-remote'? Anyway, that's what I've used for years and years when needing to run firefox over ssh X forwarding.
- inetknght 7y agoFirefox is running on the remote, connected to a different X11 session. It is not running on the local. When I use `firefox --new-session --no-remote` on the remote, I see a dialog pop up on my local machine stating Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
- codys 7y agoYes, this is because firefox doesn't allow multiple ff instances to use the same profile at the same time. You can ask firefox to create a new profile (`firefox -ProfileManager`) and then use a seperate profile for the remote instance