How to load a legacy Firefox on Windows 95 on VM

[thunderpuppy]

I need a ad on from a Legacy Firefox so I made my Windows 95 VM but can't get the internet to pull up webpages to download Firefox. I found where someone else used a Charles Proxy to bypass this issue, but I'm a tech newbie and I'm hoping there might be an easier method to accomplish what I want. Anyone have any pointers, tips, or links to toss my way? I know it's probably a long shot...

[scottgus1]

I've not heard of a Charles Proxy, going to Google that.

But you can pack files into an ISO file, which would be inserted into the guest's virtual CD drive, then run the installer from the guest's CD drive. Free programs, like ImgBurn, can make ISO files from folders on the PC, and Virtualbox has a Virtual ISO maker available, see https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01. ... a-changing

[thunderpuppy]

Oh my, yes, I'm a definite tech newbie. I used ImgBurn to copy my ISO, but I hadn't realized I could copy other files into it. This just sounds like it would open so many possibilities. Thank you!

[thunderpuppy]

I've not heard of a Charles Proxy, going to Google that.

The article I found was "Bringing Internet Explorer 4.0 to life on Windows ’95 — in 2019" by Coffee Snob on Medium . com (ha, can't post links since I'm a brand new member).

[scottgus1]

I used ImgBurn to copy my ISO

Here's another tip, if you have a Windows host, and if you find you want to get a file out of the 95 guest, and you find yourself unable to get a working shared folder between 95 and the host OS:

Free 7zip can open Virtualbox's VDI disk files. After the guest is fully shut down, open the VDI in 7zip and extract the desired files.

ImgBurn & ISO to get things in, 7zip to get things out.

[mpack]

Firefox 1.0 is from 2004, that's post XP, practically Vista era. No way it works in Win95.

Even if you got it running, an XP era browser is incompatible with the modern security conscious Internet, so even if you got it running on XP, it still wouldn't work for the majority of sites now existing.

[mpack]

Free 7zip can open Virtualbox's VDI disk files. After the guest is fully shut down, open the VDI in 7zip and extract the desired files.

It seems to have limitations. E.g. it refuses to open my Win7 vdi (NTFS). It will probably work fine for Win95, but it doesn't seem to be a generic solution. I haven't had much success working out just what the limits are. It seems like it can handle FATx and NTFS, but only up to a certain size, and only when the drive contains a single partition.