Neko on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Neko is an open source virtual browser. A real desktop browser runs inside a container on the server, and its screen and audio are streamed live to anyone who opens the web page, over WebRTC, the same low latency technology video calls use. Nothing is installed on the viewer side: you just open a URL and you are looking at, and can take control of, a browser running somewhere else entirely.

Because the session is shared, several people can watch the same browser at once and pass control between them, with a built in chat and an admin role that can lock the room, kick users and take control back. That makes it useful as a collaborative browsing space, as a disposable browser that keeps risky sites off your own machine and inside an isolated container, and as a way to reach an internal web application from anywhere without putting that application on the public internet. This image ships the Firefox flavour, so the whole stack is open source.

Common uses

• A shared browser session several people can watch and control together
• A disposable isolated browser that keeps risky sites off your own machine
• Reaching an internal web application from anywhere without exposing it

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.