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I'm working remotely today, and I need to log into the trouble ticket system (a web-based interface). Since I am remote, I don't have the trouble ticket system bookmarked or in the history of the Firefox instance I'm using, so I type it in by hand and get a site that I don't expect (a domain squatter). Obviously I didn't remember the URL correctly, but that's not that much of a problem. The system I'm currently using is Linux with X. My computer at work is Linux that runs X. Easy enough, just ssh to my workstation with X forwarding and run firefox. Sure, it might be a bit sluggish, but I can get the URL I need. ssh -X myworkstation.at.work.net blah blah blah GeneralUnixPrompt> firefox And sure enough, Firefox comes up. But ... it doesn't look right. The history shows the site I *tried* going to, and the bookmarks aren't quite right either. And why did the Unix prompt on my workstation come back? It should still be running Firefox. Some testing, and yes, I try to run firefox on my workstation, and somehow the instance running locally is notified to pop open a new window. No, I don't *want* that behavior. I truely do want to run Firefox on my workstation! Don't make me close my local Firefox ... Sigh. I'll close my local Firefox. Only *then* did I get the Firefox I wanted. I specifically use Linux *because* it has a history of not being user friendly and doing *exactly* what you tell it to. This business of being *clever* is disconcerting. I wish it would stop when I wanted it to stop. -spc (I suppose there's some command line option to get the behavior I want, but I certainly didn't see it when I ran "firefox -h")
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