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Firefox over SSH

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Hi, just a little snippet of knowledge I've picked up. I was having all sorts of problems getting Firefox to run stably over an SSH connection to a remote machine I was helping someone out with. It just kept hanging after the initial screen was shown. The answer, as tends to be the case, was horrifically mundane... Wait for it...

I had a copy of Firefox open on another desktop. Moral of the story... If you're planning on running Firefox from a remote location, make sure you haven't got a copy open on the local machine.

Anyway, that's all for now. Hope this is of use to someone!

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