Firefox browser now no updates. Best substitute?

psychic_teabag

agrinnall wrote: »

I regularly run Win 10 for days without a reboot.

Several days ? Wow.

agrinnall

psychic_teabag wrote: »

Several days ? Wow.

Who rattled your cage? I was responding to a post and used the same terminology (which did not include the word 'several', so you're just making stuff up).

psychic_teabag

hybernia wrote: »

Yup. I know. I've no grumble about Mozilla. What I'm trying to establish is if there's another browser out there that can be used with an XP machine and is continuing to be updated.

According to https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/browser-secure-old-windows-xp-system/ 'maxthon' was still fully supported on XP a year ago. I know nothing about this browser. I can't immediately tell from their site whether that's still the case.

Because firefox is open source, in principle a third party could still be building newer versions for XP. A quick search didn't reveal any such unofficial distributions. I don't know the code, and therefore whether XP was dropped because they wanted to take advantage of libraries not available on XP.

pankaj0008

Please change os not browser.

Robisere

XP is junk now, in fact it's dangerous junk. Change to another o/s.

grumpycrab

agrinnall wrote: »

I regularly run Win 10 for days without a reboot

psychic_teabag wrote: »

Several days ? Wow.

(I'm bored) I too regularly run Win 10 for days without a reboot. Hibernate just...works. After a week, or two, I find it does a full restart but I can handle that.

esuhl

Windows 10 is a bloated mess. I'd much rather use XP -- Microsoft's best OS to date. :-)

AndyPix

Windows 10 is light and quick - MS best OS to date, taking all the good parts from previous operating systems


XP was good for the day but now is full of irreperable holes

kencharm

I do not understand why you dont want to upgrade considering they have stopped support for windows xp and even windows 7 will loose support in 2020 but you can try uc web browser which is built on older version of chrome when i tried loading timbu it displayed differently on uc browser and showed properly on chrome, except that you are good and it get regular update

psychic_teabag

psychic_teabag wrote: »

Because firefox is open source, in principle a third party could still be building newer versions for XP.

"Advanced Chrome" might be one guy's mission to build latest chrome on XP : http://browser.taokaizen.com/ No idea what his motives are. (Definitely wouldn't be trusting such a browser for shopping / banking...)

Ah - not quite. Looks like "latest build" is not XP, and is just his local hacks to stock chrome. But his "custom build" based on older releases may still be actively maintained for XP.