[Python] Is it possible to run Selenium on Amazon EC2 instance without headless mode?

I want to use Selenium to load a PDF page on an Amazon EC2 instance without using headless mode, since I want to load PDFs. Due to issues described here (https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/1872), headless Chrome won't load PDFs, but I am having general trouble getting Selenium Python to run on Chrome without adding the "headless" option (which looks something like this):

options = Options()
options.headless = True # I want to change this to False
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)


If headless is set to False, it simply crashes and says something along the lines of

(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)


Here is a guide that sets up Selenium on Amazon EC2, but it uses headless as well: https://praneeth-kandula.medium.com...in-python-on-an-aws-ec2-instance-2fb4ad633bb5

Any tips/advice?

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