Is it possible to run selenium (Firefox) web driver without a GUI?

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What you’re looking for is a headless-browser.

Yes, it’s possible to run Selenium on Firefox headlessly. Here is a post you can follow.

Here is the summary steps to set up Xvfb

#install Xvfb
sudo apt-get install xvfb

#set display number to :99
Xvfb :99 -ac &
export DISPLAY=:99    

#you are now having an X display by Xvfb

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