firefox has the idea to check if some other instance is running and use
that instead.
That causes some wired behavior. try
firefox --no-remote



Am 19.05.21 um 14:47 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> I ssh -X from my laptop (midwinter) to my server, april.
> On april I start a browser.
> Of course it displays on my laptop because of the -X,
> I navigate to my home directory (I have one on each machine)
>
> When I do this with chromium I get my home directory on april, as expected.
> When I do it with firefox-esr, I get my home directory on midwinter, my
> laptop.
>
> Evidently starting firefox-esr on april manages to actually start it on
> midwinter...
>
> How can it so this? How does it even know to do this?
>
> It's clearly more efficient if I want to look at files on the world-wide
> web.
>
> But not what I want if I want to examine files on the server.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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