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josephg on April 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows appl...

Does it run Firefox? I’d love to see a browser in a browser, just to experience mediocrity in all its awful glory.

Networking would be tricky, but you could encapsulate TCP over a custom websocket tunnel.

exikyut on April 24, 2021 | [–]

No, but it does run NetSurf: http://www.boxedwine.org/app/netsurf/

...with exactly the caveat you described, because the wasm port doesn't support websockets yet.

Alternatively you can run *cough* IE6 in JSLinux.

anthk on April 24, 2021 | | [–]

You can run w2k and probably XP under TinyEmu JS.

marvin8 on April 24, 2021 | [–]

v86 has Firefox: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=archlinux&c=./networking.sh;ech...

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