Dockerfile
to create a Docker container image with Pale Moon for Linux.
The aim of this project is to provide the ability to surf a little bit more "anonymously" than in a browser installed directly into the host system.
The image uses X11 and Pulseaudio unix domain sockets on the host to enable audio support in Pale Moon. These components are available out of the box on pretty much any modern linux distribution.
Builds of the image are available on Dockerhub and is the recommended method of installation.
docker pull vasilev/palemoon:latest
Alternatively you can build the image yourself.
docker build -t vasilev/palemoon github.com/vasilev/docker-image-palemoon
With the image locally available, install the wrapper scripts to launch palemoon
using:
docker run -it --rm \
--volume /usr/local/bin:/target \
vasilev/palemoon:latest install
This will extract a wrapper scripts from the image and install them into your host system at /usr/local/bin
.
Alternatively just download the wrapper script from GitHub, make it executable, and create a symlink "palemoon" pointing to that wrapper.
After installation phase just run in your console:
palemoon
Note
If Pale Moon is installed on the host then the host binary is launched instead of starting a Docker container. To force the launch of Pale Moon in a container use the
palemoon-wrapper
script. For example,palemoon-wrapper palemoon
will launch Pale Moon inside a Docker container regardless of whether it is installed on the host or not.
The wrapper scripts volume mount the X11 and pulseaudio sockets in the launcher container. The X11 socket allows for the user interface display on the host, while the pulseaudio socket allows for the audio output to be rendered on the host.
When the image is launched the following directories are mounted as volumes:
${HOME}/'.moonchildproductions'
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
or if it is missing${HOME}/Downloads
This makes sure that your profile details are stored on the host and files received via Pale Moon are available on your host in the appropriate download directory.
To upgrade to newer releases:
- Download the updated Docker image:
docker pull vasilev/palemoon:latest
- Run
install
to make sure the host scripts are updated.
docker run -it --rm \
--volume /usr/local/bin:/target \
vasilev/palemoon:latest install
docker run -it --rm \
--volume /usr/local/bin:/target \
vasilev/palemoon:latest uninstall
For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell. If you are using Docker version 1.3.0
or higher you can access a running containers shell by starting bash
using docker exec
:
docker exec -it palemoon-container-name bash
This project is based on code and texts from: