Keith Marshall: > Yes, I already said as much, in an earlier answer: > > ,----[https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2021-January/000704.html] > | An alternative is to download, using the browser, saving > | the downloaded file in > | $MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages, whence mingw-get can > | install them, *without* requiring a continuing internet > | connection. > `------------ > > Your "var\cache\mingw-get\packages\" is *identically* the > same as my "$MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages" I beg your pardon for not realising it the first time. > I recently upgraded to Firefox-86.0, on my WinXP VM I did not know it was possible. When I try to download Firefox from the official website, their keen-witted engine checks my OS decides that may have only the old and dead extended-support release of 52.9. How did you bypass it?