Dockerized Chrome for Windows/Mac

Manual installation and run for Windows

Install Chocolatey

First need to install chocolatey.

@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

Install VcXsrv

choco install vcxsrv

Start VcXServ

VcXServ can get started by UI or with the following command

cd %ProgramFiles%
cd VcXsrv
vcxsrv -multiwindow -ac

Create a docker container

docker create --name=chrome --net=host -e TZ=<timezone> -v <Path/to/Downloads>:/root/Downloads -e DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0 pkos/chrome

• <timezone> : Your timezone, this is optional
• <PathToDownloads>: Path to your downloads folder
• <ip>: in order to show chrome in your docker host screen you need your DockerNAT ip, can get using ifconfig/ipconfig (depending Mac or Windows)

Get docker IP

if you don't know it run ipconfig find the Ethernet adapter vEthernet (DockerNAT) and grab the IP

Or you can run:

netsh interface ip show config name="vEthernet (DockerNAT)" | findstr "IP Address"

and you will receive the IP information as following:

    IP Address:                           10.0.75.1

Start chrome

docker start chrome

Stop chrome

docker stop chrome

Automatic Installation

In the case you have the scripts for install and run.

Installation

Windows

.\install.ps1 -timezone "America/La_Paz" -downloadsFolder "[path\to\downloads]"

Where -timezone is optional, it should be your timezone e.g. Europe/London

And -downloadsFolder is your downloads folder

Mac

Add the permissions (only the first time)

chmod a+x install.sh

Then run

./install.sh

Start program

Windows

Run in powershell the script start.ps1 with the following parameter

.\start.ps1

You can create a shortcut and on the target field add the following:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe "[Path\To\start.ps1]"

Mac

Add the permissions (only the first time)

chmod a+x start.sh

Then run

./start.sh

Installation for Mac

Install Xquartz

First you have to install xquartz, try installing from brew

brew install xquartz

if you can't find the package try with

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://dl.bintray.com/xquartz/downloads/XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg
hdiutil attach XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg
cd /Volumes/XQuartz-2.7.11/
sudo installer -pkg XQuartz.pkg -target /

Run socat

socat TCP-LISTEN:6000,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CLIENT:\"$DISPLAY\" &

Find you ip

Find your ip using ifconfig or you can run the command below to grab it and save into $ip variable

ip="$(ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v inet6 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep -oE "\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b" | grep -v 255)"

Create your chrome image

docker create --rm --name=chrome -e DISPLAY="$ip:0.0" -v <PathToDownloads>:/root/Downloads pkos/x-chrome

• Where $ip is your IP got from previous command.
• TZ= it is your time zone (e.g. America/La_Paz) this is optional
• <PathToDownloads> is your path for downloads, e.g. ~/Downloads

Run and configure xquartz

run xquartz

open -a Xquartz

It will start a white console, if you are running for the first time please check Allow connections from network clients going to Preferences > Security

Start chrome

docker start chrome

Stop chrome

docker stop chrome