Xvfb Jenkins Chrome Headless For Mac

There are many different ways to run chrome in headless mode within Nodejs on a Ubuntu server. (No Ubuntu GUI installed)

a. Use puppeteer (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer), this doesn't suport chrome extensions.

b. Use xvfb (X virtual framebuffer), this support chrome extensions.

In this post, let's take a look the 2nd option, using xvfb.

XVFB

From wikipedia xvfb

Headless Selenium on CentOS 6.3 (Mac XWindows / X11 / Xvfb / Headless Firefox / Selenium howto) - macxwindowsx11xvfbheadlessfirefoxhowto.md. In this article, you'll learn all about running Selenium tests in Jenkins in. By the way, WebKit is under the hood of such browsers as Chrome (and. If you don't have the X virtual framebuffer installed, i.e. If Xvfb returns the.

Xvfb or X virtual framebuffer is a display server implementing the X11 display server protocol. In contrast to other display servers, Xvfb performs all graphical operations in virtual memory without showing any screen output. From the point of view of the client, it acts exactly like any other X display server, serving requests and sending events and errors as appropriate. However, no output is shown.

Install Chrome

Add Key

Set Repository

Install Package

Install XVFB

Installing xvfb is pretty easy:

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Run Chrome with XVFB

In order to run chrome successful with xvfb in headless mode, we need to

• Add xvfb-run in front of any command which we want to run with chrome.
• Start Chrome with the --disable-gpu, --no-sandbox, and --disable-setuid-sandbox flags

Done !!!