bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?

From	Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
Newsgroups	comp.security.ssh
Subject	bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?
Message-ID	<a3e64d967fb73a7434e906e52dc7fb85@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> (permalink)
Date	2012-02-07 14:53 +0100
Organization	Frell Anonymous Remailer

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Guys I am having a difficult time believing my eyes on this one. I've got
X11 forwarded over SSH from a remote system running firefox. When I start
firefox on my local system even specifying the path to my executable in a
terminal window

/usr/bin/firefox

firefox starts from the remote system! I could see this because on my local
and remote system have different versions of firefox. I cannot get my local
version of firefox to run until all forwarded versions of the remote system
are closed. If I start firefox on my local system first then I cannot get a
remote firefox to start until the local one's finished! Anyone got an idea
what in the blazes is happening?

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bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-07 14:53 +0100
  Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-07 15:11 +0100
    Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Chris Dodd <cdodd@acm.org> - 2012-02-07 22:04 +0100
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-08 17:47 +0100
    Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-08 03:14 +0100
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-08 12:56 +0100
        Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> - 2012-02-08 12:01 +0000
          Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Owen Dunn <owend@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-08 12:12 +0000
          Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-08 13:14 +0100
            Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? all mail refused <elvis-85496@notatla.org.uk> - 2012-02-09 22:10 +0000
          Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? all mail refused <elvis-85496@notatla.org.uk> - 2012-02-09 22:05 +0000
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Allistar <me@hiddenaddress.com> - 2012-02-09 15:01 +1300
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> - 2012-02-08 23:22 -0500
        Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-02-09 19:20 +0100

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