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Running Firefox in the Cloud (davidbieber.com)
24 points by dbieber on Nov 9, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


See also Docker Desktop[1], which I'd prefer for something like this.

This Dockerfile creates a docker image and once it'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.

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I know X is kind of outdated in some respects these days, but at times I'm amazed at how much foresight went into it to enable things like this to work.

[1] https://github.com/rogaha/docker-desktop


x2go and an OVH server with LXDE has helped me several times.


Firefox doesn't even work on the desktop and they want to run it on the cloud?

I promptly uninstalled the latest version because of the black screen bug.




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