Is it possible to run selenium Firefox web driver without a GUI

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We are considering upgrading our production server from Ubuntu-desktop 10 04 to Ubuntu-server 12 04    We have various services running on our current desktop OS such as Selenium Web Driver  My question is can the Selenium Web Driver be run from a cli-based system   My immediate thought is that it can t  because it relies on Firefox  but I d like for someone to prove me wrong

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If you want headless browser support then there is another approach you might adopt.

https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver

It was announced during Selenium Conference and it is still in development. It uses PhantomJS as the browser and is much better than HTMLUnitDriver, there are no screenshots yet, but as it is still in active development.

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UPDATE  You do not need XVFB to run headless Firefox anymore  Firefox v55  on Linux and Firefox v56  on Windows Mac now supports headless execution   I added some how-to-use documentation here   https   developer mozilla org en-US Firefox Headless mode Selenium in Java

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Be aware that HtmlUnitDriver webclient is single-threaded and Ghostdriver is only at 40  of the functionalities to be a WebDriver   Nonetheless  Ghostdriver run properly for tests and I have problems to connect it to the WebDriver hub

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Yes  You can use HTMLUnitDriver instead for FirefoxDriver while starting webdriver  This is headless browser setup  Details can be found here

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Install  amp  run containerized Firefox   docker pull selenium standalone-firefox docker run --rm -d -p 4444 4444 --shm-size 2g selenium standalone-firefox   Connect using webdriver Remote   driver   webdriver Remote  http   localhost 4444 wd hub   DesiredCapabilities FIREFOX  driver set window size 1280  1024  driver get  https   www google com

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Yes  you can run test scripts without a browser  But you should run them in headless mode

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What you re looking for is a headless-browser   Yes  it s possible to run Selenium on Firefox headlessly  Here is a post you can follow   Here is the summary steps to set up Xvfb   install Xvfb sudo apt-get install xvfb   set display number to  99 Xvfb  99 -ac  amp  export DISPLAY  99       you are now having an X display by Xvfb

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An optional is to use pyvirtualdisplay like this   from pyvirtualdisplay import Display  display   Display visible 0  size  800  600   display start     do selenium job here  display close     A shorter version is   with Display   as display        selenium job here   This is generally a python encapsulate of xvfb  and more convinient somehow   By the way  although PhantomJS is a headless browser and no window will be open if you use it  it seems that PhantomJS still needs a gui environment to work    I got Error Code -6 when I use PhantomJS   instead of Firefox   in headless mode  putty-connected console   However everything is ok in desktop environment

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maybe you need to set your window-size dimension   just like   options   webdriver ChromeOptions   options add argument  --headless   options add argument  --disable-gpu   options add argument  --window-size 1920x1080     browser   webdriver Chrome options options executable path      chromedriver     if also not working  try increase window-size dimension

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Another option is GhostDriver which is now officially supported by WebDriver  Ghostdriver actual performance gain

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Chrome now has a headless mode  op   webdriver ChromeOptions   op add argument  --headless   driver   webdriver Chrome options op

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