Run a remote firefox session locally

Question

I'm trying to run a remote firefox session on my vps, to try to download some large files to the server.

I've installed firefox from the apt repo remotely, and I also have firefox installed on my Ubuntu based PC.

After doing:

$ssh -X root@myip
root@myip's password: 
X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-308.8.2.el5.028stab101.1 x86_64)

I type the following on the server:

$firefox -no-remote
(firefox:6026): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Error: no display specified

So I see two errors: "X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0" and "Error: no display specified". I'm doing something wrong, and would like to find out what.

Solution

I solved my issues.

Error: "X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0"

and

"Error: no display specified"

Solution:

Add the following to /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the client:

ForwardX11 yes

On the remote, install the following package: xauth

apt-get install xauth

Comments

[gajdipajti]

It it is solved, then mark the answer solved.

[Joel G Mathew]

Indeed elinks was the first I tried. But it doesnt work on most java pages, even with spidermonkey.

[gajdipajti]

Yes, if you wan't to use java, you need a gui browser.