How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?

[Megafrog]

Hi. I'm totally new to Puppy Linux and installed Fossa 64 bit 9.5 in a Virtual Box virtual machine so I can separate the web from my main computer for more security. I want all the cool plugins I used from Firefox but can't seem to find any way to get it from the "Install" icon on the desktop and it keeps telling me it won't work when trying to get it from firefox.com - one time the error was that it ran out of disk space (there should be 5gb for the VM) and the other time the "zip" system did not unpack the archive.

How do I get a new up-to-date Firefox working on my VM? Thank you!

[rockedge]

Hello @Megafrog Welcome to the kennels.

Check that the VM Fossapup64 is connected to the network. I usually use a bridged mode. Once the Fossapup64 is running you will have to format the virtual drive to be able to create a save folder to give persistence to your sessions (save your settings and customization's). Fossapup64 must have a default browser, use that to download firefox into the virtual machine. Extract and place in /opt. Open /opt/firefox and click on the binary file firefox

[Megafrog]

It works! Thank you for the assistance and the welcome to the "kennels"

It lead to a new question though. I set Firefox as the default browser within Puppy Linux but the "browser" link on the desktop and the taskbar both claim to be pointing at the default browser, but choose Pale Moon instead. This even happened after a reset. Firefox believes itself to be my current browser but that link does not. How do I make PL think Firefox is the default as much as Firefox already thinks that?

Also, totally urelated to firefox except that I'm a newbie and you seem to know what is going on, the wallpaper screen has a desklet/widget/info bar with system, processes, resources, etc and I don't know how to tell that to go away. What is the name of that?

Thank you again for your assistance.

[Wiz57]

It works! Thank you for the assistance and the welcome to the "kennels"

It lead to a new question though. I set Firefox as the default browser within Puppy Linux but the "browser" link on the desktop and the taskbar both claim to be pointing at the default browser, but choose Pale Moon instead. This even happened after a reset. Firefox believes itself to be my current browser but that link does not. How do I make PL think Firefox is the default as much as Firefox already thinks that?

Also, totally urelated to firefox except that I'm a newbie and you seem to know what is going on, the wallpaper screen has a desklet/widget/info bar with system, processes, resources, etc and I don't know how to tell that to go away. What is the name of that?

Thank you again for your assistance.

This will probably be found in either PupControl (under Setup menu), then look for Default applications...or, in some Puppies you'll find under Utility or Setup
a shortcut to Default Application Chooser. Either points to the same destination, the thing to remember is there are probably 2 places to check that Firefox
or whatever you desire are set as default application...one is under HTML Viewer, the other under Web Browser. Change those 2 places to Firefox, click
on OK and you should be all set.
Wiz

[mikewalsh]

@Megafrog :-

As m'colleague says, that's one way. The other way, which I tend to use more often, is to go into /usr/local/bin, locate the defaultbrowser file, then rt-click->Open with Geany / Open as text, followed by editing the Exec line directly to point at

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/opt/firefox/firefox

(To enter the file-system, use the upward-pointing arrow at the left-hand end of ROX's Menubar.)

You can also type this directly into the selection box for Default browser within the Default Applications Chooser, which you'll find under Menu->Setup.

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The thing you're referring to on the desktop is called "Conky". This thing can be set-up to display all sorts of info, though it's done via text-file configuration, and some people spend days/weeks/even months getting it just how they want it..!

To "make it go away" is simple. Go into /root/Startup. Look for a file called conkystart. Rt-clk on that file, then -> Properties. Look down the bottom; you'll see a bunch of checkboxes. Remove the tick in all the 'Exec' checkboxes, followed by 'Refresh', then 'Close'. The next time you re-boot, or re-start 'X', "Conky" will be gone.

I remove this myself, because I prefer to use a combination of the gKrellM system monitor & Puppy's native pWidgets.

Hope that helps.

Mike.

[Megafrog]

Thank you Rockedge, Wiz57 and mikewalsh. All of these work and make Puppy work exactly right. How nice it is to have a super speed in a virtual machine on a low spec computer! Awesome!