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by CaptainJustin 1635 days ago
In this spirit I've been playing with spun up Firefox instances in a Google Cloud Run. The container is stateless and goes away after I close the page that connects to video stream of the other container in my browser.
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For all intents and purposes Google is the civilian NSA, I'm not sure you're gaining anything by creating VM in their cloud!
I'm assuming they want some protection against adtech companies or the local coffee shop sysadmin. Running Firefox in the cloud "to avoid detection by the NSA" would indeed be quite foolish.
Do you find the performance satisfactory enough for daily browsing?
Way back in 2009 I helped design and implement basically "Firefox on AWS EC2" - I had YouTube audio and "video" working, in the subwindow, not Fullscreen. It was roughly 5-10FPS, about what you'd get with VNC, with perfect audio.

I had an idea that thin clients were going to be big - and I stupidly pitched ideas for cloud based software to Adobe, Newtek, and Autodesk.

Never gunna do that again.