[clue-tech] SSH/Firefox crossover effect

[Jason S. Friedman]

I have two machines both running Fedora Core 2 and
Firefox.  My monitor is connected to machine one.  I
connect to machine two via SSH with X11 forwarding.  Both
machines are using SSH:
$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f

If I launch Firefox with userone from machine one I see
the bookmarks from ~userone/.mozilla on machine one.  If I
shut down Firefox on machine one and launch it with a user
with the same name (userone) from machine two I see the
bookmarks from ~userone/.mozilla on machine two.  So far,
so good.

But, if I launch Firefox from machine one, and do not shut
down Firefox on machine one before launching Firefox from
machine two, I now have merely another Firefox window that
is "pointing" to machine one (it uses ~userone/.mozilla
and name resolution from machine one), not machine two
(from where it was launched.

I'm guessing this is an SSH issue, rather than a Firefox
issue, but I cannot guess what the issue is.