RSelenium using Docker and Firefox, Browser Not Opening on Mac
I think the issue seems to with your expectations to see the browser. You are launching the browser inside a docker container. The docker container doesn't have a UI, the browser is launched inside the container instance and not on your machine which initiates the call
The default selenium/standalone-firefox doesn't allow viewing of the browser. If you need to view the browser then you need to use the selenium/standalone-firefox-debug image. This image hosts VNC at port 5900 of the container. You will run it using below
docker run -d -p 4445:4444 -p 5900:5900 selenium/standalone-firefox-debugThen you will execute your code and connect to 127.0.0.1:5900 using a VNC Viewer. It will ask for a password which is secret by default.
Then you will see the browser in that VNC
The above is the result of running the code you had in question
Here is a Dockerfile which may be useful to you https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles/blob/master/chrome/stable/Dockerfile
inlined here for convenience:
# Run Chrome in a container## docker run -it \# --net host \ # may as well YOLO# --cpuset-cpus 0 \ # control the cpu# --memory 512mb \ # max memory it can use# -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \ # mount the X11 socket# -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \# -v $HOME/Downloads:/home/chrome/Downloads \# -v $HOME/.config/google-chrome/:/data \ # if you want to save state# --security-opt seccomp=$HOME/chrome.json \# --device /dev/snd \ # so we have sound# --device /dev/dri \# -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm \# --name chrome \# jess/chrome## You will want the custom seccomp profile:# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfrazelle/dotfiles/master/etc/docker/seccomp/chrome.json -O ~/chrome.json# Base docker imageFROM debian:sidLABEL maintainer "Jessie Frazelle <jess@linux.com>"ADD https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb /src/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb# Install ChromeRUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ libcanberra-gtk* \ apt-transport-https \ ca-certificates \ curl \ gnupg \ hicolor-icon-theme \ libgl1-mesa-dri \ libgl1-mesa-glx \ libpango1.0-0 \ libpulse0 \ libv4l-0 \ fonts-symbola \ --no-install-recommends \ && curl -sSL https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \ && echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list \ && apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ google-chrome-stable \ --no-install-recommends \ && dpkg -i '/src/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb' \ && apt-get purge --auto-remove -y curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \ && rm -rf /src/*.deb# Add chrome userRUN groupadd -r chrome && useradd -r -g chrome -G audio,video chrome \ && mkdir -p /home/chrome/Downloads && chown -R chrome:chrome /home/chromeCOPY local.conf /etc/fonts/local.conf# Run Chrome as non privileged userUSER chrome# Autorun chromeENTRYPOINT [ "google-chrome" ]CMD [ "--user-data-dir=/data" ]Additionally, this project https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-browser-box
Inlined Dockerfile for convenience.
FROM sameersbn/ubuntu:14.04.20170123ENV TOR_VERSION=6.5 \ TOR_FINGERPRINT=0x4E2C6E8793298290RUN wget -q -O - "https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub" | sudo apt-key add - \ && echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list \ && mkdir ~/.gnupg \ && gpg --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys ${TOR_FINGERPRINT} \ && gpg --fingerprint ${TOR_FINGERPRINT} | grep -q "Key fingerprint = EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7 DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290" \ && apt-get update \ && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y xz-utils file locales dbus-x11 pulseaudio dmz-cursor-theme curl \ fonts-dejavu fonts-liberation hicolor-icon-theme \ libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module \ libasound2 libglib2.0 libgtk2.0-0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libxt6 libexif12 \ libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri libstdc++6 nvidia-346 \ gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \ gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav \ google-chrome-stable chromium-browser firefox \ && update-locale LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX \ && mkdir -p /usr/lib/tor-browser \ && wget -O /tmp/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/${TOR_VERSION}/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz \ && wget -O /tmp/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz.asc https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/${TOR_VERSION}/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz.asc \ && gpg /tmp/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz.asc \ && tar -Jvxf /tmp/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz --strip=1 -C /usr/lib/tor-browser \ && ln -sf /usr/lib/tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser /usr/bin/tor-browser \ && rm -rf /tmp/tor-browser-linux64-${TOR_VERSION}_en-US.tar.xz \ && rm -rf ~/.gnupg \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*COPY scripts/ /var/cache/browser-box/COPY entrypoint.sh /sbin/entrypoint.shCOPY confs/local.conf /etc/fonts/local.confRUN chmod 755 /sbin/entrypoint.shENTRYPOINT ["/sbin/entrypoint.sh"]