How to open a browser on a Google Compute Engine VM

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How can I open a browser in my VM instance? And how safe/unsafe can this be?

The instance is a Ubuntu 16.04

The only way I know to access the VM is via the SSH button provided by google on the cloud console website.

I want to use it regularly, with pages visually displayed and mouse clicks. (Treat me as a newbie, I'm totally new on Linux and on VMs. I didn't even know there was another way of controlling the browser)


Context:

I need to download a huge amount of data from websites to my virtual machine on Google Compute Engine.

I know there are solutions on the web to transfer files from my machine, but my internet really sucks, it's not feasible.

I also know there are some commands like wget using copied cookies to download some files.

Even though, I feel I'll be needing to use a browser, especially because I want to use a regular Google Drive interface to transfer my files if I need.

Knowing more about this helps, but the question is "how to open a browser and navigate as if I was a regular newbie, with pages displayed and mouse clicks".

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