137554 - Local and remote browsers conflict

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[brian]

1) Open a browser on the local machine.
2) SSH (with X11 forwarding) to a remote machine and open up a remote browser.

Instead of starting a new remote browser, another window in the local browser is
opened.

This also happens in the reverse - opening a remote browser, then a local
browser, just opens another window on the remote machine.

I am using the 20020414 build.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I assume you're using the linux rpm distribution? If so, that's the design
behavior...

Comment 2

[brian]

No, I am using a Debian package "mozilla-snapshot", actually.  If this is the
design behavior for RPM, does that imply there is a way to turn this 'feature' off?

The main problem is running Mozilla locally (especially for mail).  If I then
want to open a remote browser (mostly for remote file browsing (ie
file:///foo.html - for testing in-development web sites on our development box),
I must close all local windows locally before using a remote setup.  This is
*VERY* annoying :)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> does that imply there is a way to turn this 'feature' off?

Yes.  Edit the shell script that starts mozilla (not sure whether this is
'mozilla' or 'run-mozilla.sh' that you'd want to edit) to not use -remote to
open new windows instead of starting the browser...

You can also start the remote browser by running it with -Pprofilemanager, iirc.

Comment 4

[brian]

Excellent.  Actually, as long as there is *any* option specified it does not use
-remote.  A '-noremote' option would be nice for this if it is going to be the
default to use -remote, though.

Thanks,
-Brian

Comment 5

[James Cox]

is this really invalid?

bz?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes. It's a "bug" or "feature" in Debian's startup script, which has nothing to
do with mozilla.org