Connecting to Remote Desktop: Firefox and Windows. For assistance with this process, contact IT Support. Contact telephone numbers are at the. Nov 30, 2004 Using Firefox and Remote Desktop. Currently i am using MS explorer and want to use Firefox in the future but there is one thing i cannot find information about. In IE a remote desktop client plug in is installed (active X component) which enables me to run standard windows applications in the IE browser using RDC. This does not work using FireFox.
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5 years agoUser Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0Build ID: 0505Steps to reproduce:Maximize Firefox window on my 1920x1200 computer. Then connect to this computer by my laptop, using Remote Desktop/RDP by using 1024x768.Workaround: tools options Disable 'Use hardware acceleration when available'Seem somehow related to, but not quite as this is only related to maximized window. It works fine not-maximized.Actual results:Firefox hangs/freezes. Unable to wake it up again. Cannot resolve by connect to original computer (not by RDP). Firefox still hangs.My setup: Win7x64.
Radeon HD 7870 2GB.Expected results:Expected result is that Firefox resizes itself to new resolution.