Run Firefox or Google Chrome into a Docker container | based on http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:14.04

# Replace 1000 with your user / group id
RUN export uid=1000 gid=1000 && \
    mkdir -p /home/developer && \
    echo "developer:x:${uid}:${gid}:Developer,,,:/home/developer:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd && \
    echo "developer:x:${uid}:" >> /etc/group && \
    echo "developer ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/developer && \
    chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/developer && \
    chown ${uid}:${gid} -R /home/developer

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y firefox wget
RUN wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
RUN echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install google-chrome-stable dbus-x11 packagekit-gtk3-module libcanberra-gtk-module -y

USER developer
ENV HOME /home/developer
CMD dbus-daemon --system --fork && /usr/bin/firefox

run.sh

docker build -t browser .
docker run -ti --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix browser
docker run -ti --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix browser google-chrome

Now check https://hub.docker.com/r/dmouse/browser/

Headless mode?

Is there a way to make this work with later versions of ubuntu, say 16.04 or 18.04? Getting error stuck on line /sudoers.d/ directory doesn't exist?

you can visit chrome-docker for help