reverse ssh howto force a new instance of either FF or Chrome
 

on the remote computer.

I have reverse ssh working from my house to the office. I can get applications like Putty or gedit to open without an issue, but when i try to open chrome or firefox i get a display error and a msg telling me it is already running, as it is, and that it will open a new screen on my work computer.

it never brings it to the home computer.

what options do i need to add to get /usr/bin/google-chrome to open on the computer at the house via ssh?

I've not played with Chrome in this way but with Firefox you can only have one instance of each profile open at a time. So the only way to have Firefox open on two difference X displays is to open a different profile on each.
I'm being lazy so just googled quickly and found this:
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/abou...fox-instances/
The principals apply whenever you're running Firefox on different X servers though which includes remote ones.
You may also need to specify the DISPLAY variable to Firefox when opening remotely.

Chrome works the same way - the way around it is to make a second profile for these remote connections.

I don't have Chrome but Chromium does thisMeaning it opens another window on the same desktop as the first -- so running it remotely doesn't work (neither does it work on a monitor set as a separate X desktop). Perhaps if a DISPLAY is passed to it?

Tried that before, still doesn't work. The only solution I've found is to set up a new profile.

I run separate X desktops on my machine at work, and I have to have a separate profile for each. The launcher in the taskbar for one monitor is:
The other monitor is:
It works fine, the only downside is you can't share bookmarks between them. So when I want to add a new bookmark, I have to add it to each of them separately.

Ah, so the same as Firefox then. Good to know, thanks.

thanks all. glad it is something semi easy to resolve.