weird firefox behaviour when launched with ssh -X

[Paolo Benvenuto]

Binary package hint: firefox

Launching firefox with ssh runs the local firefox instead of the remote one. The command:

ssh -X remotepc firefox

doesnt' run firefox on remotepc, but on localhost.

Even if I "ssh -X remotepc gnome-terminal" and then, in the terminal, I run firefox, the local firefox is run.

On the contrary all other application run properly on the remote host when launched with ssh -X.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 12 11:23:38 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:it:en_GB:en
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

still present in maverick, and REALLY annoying! I'm not allowed to run firefox with ssh on another pc!

paolo@parroco~$ ssh -X paolo firefox
paolo@paolo's password:
paolo@parroco:~$ ps ax|grep firefox
22592 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox
22596 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin
22600 ? Sl 4:43 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin
22829 ? Sl 1:12 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/plugin-container /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so 22600 plugin true
26842 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep firefox

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

still present in 12.04