Run firefox remotely over an SSH tunnel (Linux required)

I manage several Linux servers from (among others) a Linux desktop. Running X apps on a remote server locally via SSH is cool, very cool.

If you\'ve every tried this with firefox, you\'ve likely noticed that the firefox launching script is too smart for this kind of malarkey. Execute the script $/usr/bin/firefox on a remote ssh session with X11 forwarding enabled and it will cause the local firefox install to launch... and they call this a "feature."

Well, one can disable this "feature" with the counter-intuitive flag -no-remote.

So, by issuing the command

$/usr/bin/firefox -no-remote

you will disable the "no remote" feature, thereby enabling the remote display functionality. Backwards? yes. Affective in its awesomeness? Totally!