Re: isn't firefox's remote execution capability on linux a security violation?

Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:04:37 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <CACpOFMvxA-ntK91kbFe3crk0qENRDh9NHFHkKAuH2pJaKvrROA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Charles Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I run firefox remotely on a different machine over a secure connection without using the --no-remote option, it starts locally instead.

That is incorrect. xremote only has an effect if Firefox is already
running on that X server.

Also, this isn't really the right place for the question... not sure
which one is, maybe dev.tech.platform

-christian