01-22-2010
I hope this is for over a local network -- X sessions aren't very bandwidth-efficient!
Essentially, you need overkill. You're tunneling something which, at least in bursts, can be as or more demanding than broadcasting uncompressed video, times sixty. VNC would be more efficient, though that may or may not trade off with higher CPU on the server... Lots of bandwidth, several cores, a pre-emptive kernel running at 1000 ticks for maximum responsivity, a good gigabit card and a good board that won't bottleneck it, some gigabit switches(at least the layer closest to the server). At least disk might not be an issue unless the web interface is a hog all by itself...
Furthermore, Firefox is a greedy program whose resource utilization patterns assume it's the only instance of itself in the system. Even at total idle, sixty would keep a modern machine quite busy. Install plenty of memory. Google every firefox performance tweak and do its opposite -- turn off prerendering, decimate all caches, increase waits. Install no add-ons, plugins, or themes. The Adobe Flash plugin is particularly infamous for eating CPU while doing nothing and occasionally SMP-locking. Pick a reasonably modern, unloaded machine and just test firefox on it, opening lots of instances and tuning.
This is, of course, a very strange way to accomplish whatever goal they have. I can't think of any good reason to tunnel a web browser when you could tunnel a web page -- it's like emailing a video of you typing up some text. Maybe you can at least convince them to tunnel xterms running a text browser? Or, even, a text browser on a local terminal? Those would still give them 100% control at the server end, which is what I think they want, but without anywhere near as much brute force.
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FIREFOX(1) Linux User's Manual FIREFOX(1)
NAME
firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser
SYNOPSIS
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
USAGE
firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable.
OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.
GTK options
--gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set
--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
Gdk debugging flags to unset
--gtk-debug=FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to set
--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to unset
--gtk-module=MODULE
Load an additional Gtk module
X11 options
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
--sync Make X calls synchronous
--no-xshm
Don't use X shared memory extension
--xim-preedit=STYLE
--xim-status=STYLE
--g-fatal-warnings
Make all warnings fatal
Firefox options
-h, -help
Show summary of options.
-height value
Set height of startup window to value.
-width value
Set width of startup window to value.
-v, -version
Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version.
-CreateProfile profile
Create profile.
-P profile
Start with profile.
-ProfileManager
Start with profile manager.
-UILocale lang-region
Start with lang-region resources.
-contentLocale lang-region
Start with lang-region resources.
-remote command
Execute command in an already running Firefox process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
-no-remote
Don't try to control an already running instance.
-jsconsole
Start with Javascript Console
-chrome url
Load the specified chrome.
-new-window url
Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running.
-new-tab url
Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running.
-preferences
Open Firefox preferences menu.
-safe-mode
Disables extensions and themes for this session.
FILES /usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox executable
VERSION
3.0
BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
SEE ALSO
mozilla(1)
AUTHORS
The Mozilla Organization
http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
firefox January 04, 2006 FIREFOX(1)