How to run Firefox on a Debian server - firefox

I have installed Firefox on my Server (running Debian 6.0) but when I try to launch it I get the following message:
Error: no display specified
After googling I installed xvfb and now I have this error;
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":99.0".
and it freezes.
Can anybody help me?
Update: I'm now able to run Firefox, but I don't want it to open up a local window but everything should be done on the server side. It should just open up, play a macro (made with iMacros) and then shut down. The opening and the closing will be handled by a script.
Thanks

You are connecting with SSH to that Debian machine? Then call next time the ssh-command with -X as argument, this will pass the correct display options to the server.

Launch this from your box's xterm:
ssh -X debian-server dbus-launch firefox

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