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Could not run Firefox browser

See original GitHub issue

For workflow like this

name: Firefox

on: push

jobs:
  # hmm, seems when using container (that should have FF installed)
  # Cypress cannot find Firefox. This job just prints browser versions
  check-firefox:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images
    container: cypress/browsers:node13.6.0-chrome80-ff72
    steps:
      # help us who how we are running in the container
      - run: whoami
      - run: id
      - run: google-chrome --version
      - run: firefox --version

Getting the following error

whoami
root

id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 80.0.3987.87 

firefox --version
Running Firefox as root in a regular user's session is not supported.  ($HOME is /github/home which is owned by uid 1001.)
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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2reactions

manoadamrocommented, Feb 17, 2021

Solved, this solution works (thanks to gh community forum):
container:
  image: cypress/browsers:node13.6.0-chrome80-ff72
  options: --user 1001

I’m still getting error while loading shared libraries: libgbm.so.1 with that

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github-actions[bot]commented, Mar 9, 2020

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 1.23.2 🎉

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