Firefox + VNC + Java

This image allows you to run an ancient firefox with Java. It is exposed via VNC on port 5900.

Usage

Start the container:

docker run -p 5900:5900 -ti ungleich/firefox-java-vnc:latest

Use VNC to connect to it:

vncviewer localhost

(replace localhost with wherever you have the container running)

Maintainer note

Building & pushing:

docker build -t ungleich/firefox-java-vnc .
docker push ungleich/firefox-java-vnc

Changelog

0.0.3

• Updated version of Ubuntu 16.04
  • docker build -t ungleich/firefox-java-vnc:0.0.3 -f Dockerfile-ubuntu-16.04 .
  • docker push ungleich/firefox-java-vnc:0.0.3
• Contains the java.security patch noted in 0.0.2
• Added k8s job definition for testing
• ilo3 remote console opens, but shows a grey box

0.0.2

• Switched to Ubuntu 16.04 as the base image
• Added kubernetes sample deployment
• Does not work with iDRAC 6
• Error with HPE ilo3:
  • Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Unknown Main-Class. Could not determine the main class for this application.
    • Can be fixed using echo "jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2" >> /etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security
    • Hint found on https://github.com/niclan/Javafox/issues/12

0.0.1

• Initial release based on Ubuntu 14.04
• Works with iDRAC 6
• Error with HPE ilo3:
• Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Application Error: Cannot grant permissions to unsigned jars. Application requested security permissions, but jars are not signed.

Credit

Based on the following repos/work:

• https://github.com/mablanco/docker-firefox-java-vnc/
• https://hub.docker.com/r/cmaohuang/firefox-java