claudehenchoz / xpra-firefox

Runs firefox in xpra

xpra-firefox

This runs Firefox in Xpra so you can attach to it from different systems.

Xpra allows you to use the speed of X-forwarding (a bit faster even) and the detach/attach possibilities of VNC.

Tags

• latest uses Alpine as base
• ubuntu uses Ubuntu as base
• ubudev uses Firefox Developer Edition on Ubuntu

XPRA Usage

To run Firefox on 'fireserver' listening for xpra-connections on tcp/12345 for clients that want to use it:

• Run the container:

docker run -d -p 12345:10000 --name xprafire -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm --device /dev/snd garo/xpra-firefox

• Wait a couple of seconds for everything to start...

• You can now use xpra on a client to connect to it with: xpra attach tcp:fireserver:12345

• If you detach the xpra connection from the client firefox will continue to run.

• Closing Firefox will also stop the container. With docker start xprafire it will start again.

The environment variable XPRA_PORT is 10000 by default but can be changed to make xpra listen to another port.

Regular (local) usage

You can also use this to run firefox locally in a container:

docker run -d --net host -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY --rm -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm \
--device /dev/snd -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority garo/xpra-firefox firefox

Issues

• Sound doesn't work in the ubuntu version

Development

Want to improve this (bugfixes, extra features, ...) ?

Fork this repository on GitHub instead of cloning it, I and other users might be interested in your changes !