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Running Firefox in the Cloud

24 pointsby dbieberover 10 years ago

3 comments

nlover 10 years ago
See also Docker Desktop[1], which I&#x27;d prefer for something like this.<p><i>This Dockerfile creates a docker image and once it&#x27;s executed it creates a container that runs X11 and SSH services. The ssh is used to forward X11 and provide you encrypted data communication between the docker container and your local machine.<p>Xpra + Xephyr allows to display the applications running inside of the container such as Firefox, LibreOffice, xterm, etc. with recovery connection capabilities. Xpra also uses a custom protocol that is self-tuning and relatively latency-insensitive, and thus is usable over worse links than standard X.</i><p>I know X is kind of outdated in some respects these days, but at times I&#x27;m amazed at how much foresight went into it to enable things like this to work.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/rogaha/docker-desktop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rogaha&#x2F;docker-desktop</a>
deejayeffover 10 years ago
x2go and an OVH server with LXDE has helped me several times.
digguserover 10 years ago
Firefox doesn&#x27;t even work on the desktop and they want to run it on the cloud?<p>I promptly uninstalled the latest version because of the black screen bug.