Firefox in Docker on Windows

Inspired by article Run GUI app in linux docker container on windows host.

This is a proof of concept being able to start graphical applications using docker containers on Microsoft Windows.

Prerequisites

Install a X-Server for Windows like VcXsrv or Xming.

First start

Start a shell in project root directory and use following Docker Compose command to build and start the container for the first time.

docker-compose up -d

Start the container

The container will exit after closing the last browser window.

You can restart the container at any time without a rebuild.

docker-compose start browser

Remove the container

Clean-up the container.

docker-compose down

Miscellaneous

• The project root directory will be mounted under /mnt in container.
• You can change the required Ubuntu version by changing the build argument UBUNTU_VERSION with another version number in docker-compose.yml.