Launching FireFox remotely

[metpage]

Whenever im logged into my Ubutu Desktop at home remotely from work i cannot seem to launch Firefox by clicking on any of the shortcuts.

Seems the only thing that lets me lauch it is by opening a command windown and typing "sudo firefox"

When im at home, link works just fine


What can i do to fix this?


FYI Im running the following:
Firefox 3.5.8
Ubuntu 9.10

[jdk82]

What happens if you try

firefox

from the command line?

[Bradj47]

Whenever im logged into my Ubutu Desktop at home remotely from work i cannot seem to launch Firefox by clicking on any of the shortcuts.

Seems the only thing that lets me lauch it is by opening a command windown and typing "sudo firefox"

When im at home, link works just fine


What can i do to fix this?


FYI Im running the following:
Firefox 3.5.8
Ubuntu 9.10

If you are running it remotely, how did you set it up so that you just click a launcher? The way I run programs remotely is:

$ ssh yyy.yyy.y.yyy
<password>
$ csh
% setenv DISPLAY xxx.xxx.x.xxx:0.0
% firefox

xxx.xxx.x.xxx being the ip address of the local computer and yyy.yyy.y.yyy being the ip address of the computer you are connecting to remotely.
Could you paste the code that you put in the launcher?

[jdk82]

@ Bradj47
Unless I completely misunderstood the OP's post, it looks like he is trying to log in via vncviewer. If this is not the case, could the OP give more details as to the setup and the software in question?

Josh

[bodhi.zazen]

Firefox is a funny application that way.

Are you using ssh ? VNC over ssh ?

When using ssh -X you need the -no-remote option.

firefox -no-remote

It would also help if you start firefox in a terminal and post any error messages you may get.

[metpage]

OK i'm using a WinXP machine from work and connecting to my home computer via NX Client.

Using the command line and type "firefox" it just hangs

Only way i can get it to run is if i type "sudo firefox"

when i login and click the link to launch firefox it proceeds to launch then disappears (get the "starting firefox web browser" on the task bar then it goes away).

[bodhi.zazen]

OK i'm using a WinXP machine from work and connecting to my home computer via NX Client.

Using the command line and type "firefox" it just hangs

Only way i can get it to run is if i type "sudo firefox"

when i login and click the link to launch firefox it proceeds to launch then disappears (get the "starting firefox web browser" on the task bar then it goes away).

Try

firefox -no-remote

If that works we can make a custom launcher.

[metpage]

hmm just tried that and it didn't do anything, it still hangs

[bodhi.zazen]

Not sure why it hangs. Does it work when you are in front of the box (without connecting from remote ?).

Perhaps it is a corrupt profile ?

You can try starting firefox either with a new profile or in safe mode.

firefox -P