giorgos/fx-docker repository overview

⁠Firefox Builds for Snippet Development

Tools and Dockerfiles to build Docker Images of Firefox for snippet developement. It's linked to dockerhub⁠ as an automated so you can always get up to date images from there.

For example to launch firefox 41:

or Firefox 4:

You can also define a custom Snippets provider with SNIPPET_HOST env variable.

note:

http://localhost⁠ refers to containers internal ip, so if you run a development instance on your laptop you probably want to change localhost to the laptop's hostname.

⁠Testing snippets fast

1. Setup your local snippets server⁠
2. Setup the snippet template and snippet
3. Copy ./bin/local_variables.sh-dist to ./bin/local_variables.sh and update SNIPPET_HOST to your host.
4. Run ./bin/test.sh

The final step will sequentially start Firefox browsers from version 15.0 to the latest version. The browser gets auto-configured to fetch snippets from your server thus you only have to check that the snippet is OK and then close the browser window. In a moment the next Firefox version will appear.

You can avoid setting SNIPPET_HOST and test the production snippets against multiple versions of Firefox.

⁠Variables

• SNIPPET_HOST to set snippet server
• PRODUCT_NAME to set product name to something other than %NAME%. Useful when testing specific snippets with Client Match Rules that set product name.