Okay Firefox, that's ... interesting. Now cut it out!

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From: Sean Conner
Subject: Okay Firefox, that's ... interesting. Now cut it out!
Date: 20:30 on 25 Jan 2007
  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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