Re: Firefox oddity

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:15:53AM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
> This isn't a *BSD question per se, but I thought someone may have run into this
> before.
>
> I noticed some strange behavior today with Firefox running over X11Forwarding.
> I was logged into a local machine where I started firefox. I then logged into a
> remote system and ran firefox from there. Even though firefox *should* have
> been running separately on the cpu of each system, the Firefox that was started
> *first* would always "grab" the session and force it to become a managed window
> of its own. These systems are not using any shared (e.g. NFS) homes or disks,
> so they wouldn't have access to the same dotfiles. Process list on the latter
> system would reveal no firefox processes, while a "pkill firefox" on the former
> would indeed kill all Firefox windows.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before? I'm somewhat surprised that I've never seen
> this type of thing in all the years I've used X. I've been able to reproduce
> this on Linux and OpenBSD.

In case it wasn't obvious, I should reiterate that whichever host runs firefox
*first* always "grabs" the session. Start firefox on the remote box first, then
run firefox locally. Notice that a ps on the local system shows no firefox
processes. Pkill on the remote system kills box Firefox windows.

-J.

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