Firefox docker image
Firefox docker image using Xpra for displaying GUI from container on the host.
Locations
Source of the image is hosted on Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/beli-sk/docker-firefox
If you find any problems, please post an issue at https://bitbucket.org/beli-sk/docker-firefox/issues
The built image is located on Docker Hub at https://hub.docker.com/r/beli/firefox/
Pull or build
The image is built automatically on Docker hub in repository beli/firefox and can be pulled using command
docker pull beli/firefox
or if you'd prefer to build it yourself from this repository
docker build -t beli/firefox .
Usage example
Run the container in the background
docker run -d beli/firefox
find out on which local port was the port 10000 from the container exposed
docker ps -l
and use Xpra on the host to attach to container's GUI
xpra attach tcp:localhost:PORT
(replace PORT with the port number exposed from the container)
If you would like to have a persistent profile used in the container, you can
mount a host directory into /profile inside the container by adding
a -v option to docker run, for example:
docker run -d -v /home/user/firefox_profile:/profile beli/firefox
Simultaneously running multiple containers from the same profile directory is not recommended, Firefox will not like it.
Similarly, you can do the same for /downloads directory inside the
container.
Both volumes should have read/write permissions for user ID 1000, under which is used for starting firefox in the container.