Re: What is going on with firefox

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> > On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote:
> > > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but 
> > > > what on
> > > > earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and 
> > > > why is
> > > > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore.
> > >
> > > It's not possible with chromium either. I have two separate X servers
> > > running on two separate machines but displaying a desktop from a single
> > > machine (two window managers running)
> >
> > Tim, likely you are confusing ability of the same browser instance to 
> > have windows on multiple DISPLAYs and running multiple instances on 
> > the same display.
> I don't think so. I want to run multiple instances on different
> displays. But any attempt to do anything on the second display seems to
> have chrome first looking for the existing instance and then displaying
> everything on that display.

I am still in doubts if Daniel needs different DISPLAYs.

Out of curiosity I have tried another instances of Chromium and Firefox 
from "ssh -X". Perhaps Firefox relies too much on hardware graphics 
acceleration and menus were not rendered. Chromium worked a bit better, 
but e.g. open file dialog appeared on the local screen. It is more or 
less expected. Desktop portal was running on the local display and I was 
not tried to isolate D-Bus session. I consider it as a limitation of 
desktop user session rather than of browsers.

I have not tried it, but sharing whole session might work better, e.g. 
RDP and gnome-remote-desktop. It seems
<https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/sharing-desktop.html.en>
describes VNC access.