254994 - starting mozilla on remote machine brings up local browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223105

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Igor Furlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

If I run on my local machine firefox, telnet to another linux box on the LAN and
start there mozilla I do not get on my local machine remote mozilla session.
I get another copy of the local firefox session.

Yes, I know...  it sounds very confusing.  I do not know how to describe it
better. Please follow "Steps to Reproduce" and the picure will become CLEAR.

I am not sure if this is related to firefox-->mozilla only or to all
combinations of browsers which are based on "mozilla".

The main reason I am reporting this bug is very simple. I have noticed this
strange behavior few times at my work. I have not had time to investigate it.

But now, I can reproduce this bug any time I want. I've build a small home LAN
today (RH6.2, RH 9.0, RH 8.0). This is a controlled enviroment.

There is a work around for this bug. If I want to have two separate browser
sessions, one on local machine and the other on remote machine, I have to start
browser first on remote machine and then on local machine.

Of course, I want to have BOTH browser sessions on the same physical screen (aka
my local machine).

In case it matters. I have on both machines the same ID (login name). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open xterm
2. type "xhost +" ( withot quotes )
3. start firefox 
4. telnet to the remote machine
5. set DISPLAY variable ( example: export 
DISPLAY=192.168.3.12:0.0 ) Assuming that your local IP address is 192.168.3.12.
6. start mozilla on remote machine 
 
Actual Results:  
On the local machine another firefox window will open. This browser DOES NOT run
on the remote machine. How do I know that ?  Very simple answer: click on
Help-->About Mozilla Firefox and write down version

Expected Results:  
I should get on my local display a mozilla session which runs on remote machine

As I said already, there is a simple work around. If I start browser on the
remote machine first and THEN I start local browser, EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Comment 1

[Igor Furlan]

*** Bug 254999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

It's a feature actually (firefox uses -remote by default)

:-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223105 ***

Comment 3

[Igor Furlan]

I am not trying to split the hair..  but  Christian Biesinger said here

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223105

firefox, mozilla does not use -remote by default

and you  Jo Hermans are saying

It's a feature actually (firefox uses -remote by default)

So, where is the real truth ?

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

no, you misunderstood the syntax there.

he moved the bug TO Firefox, because Mozilla doesn't use -remote by default, but
Firefox does.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223105 ***