In message , R.Wieser
writes:
John,

With OE-Quotefix, I presume.

Without. I reformat by hand. Yes, I realize that that is rather "old
school". :-)

Last time I powered up my W98 machine, the Firefox 2 (.0.0.20, IIRR) on it
still worked with some sites!

Up until just a couple of years ago I still ran v3.x (on both 98se and XP).

I think to go beyond 2.x on '9x needs kernelex, which I never got round
to learning to use properly.

Though at some point it looked as if it got problems with a number of sites
I frequent, so I decided to upgrade to v52, hoping it would serve me for a
few years. Alas ...

There's also a version of Chrome that runs on XP;
....
(Sorry can't tell you version number.)

If Chromes browser versions are documented as well as Mozillas I'm not even
going to try to find them. Sorry.

No problem. The better old-version sites often tell you (I think mostly
relaying what users have told them) which versions work with what OSes,
so if you did go looking for it, you'd probably see which was the latest
for XP.

Also, is Chrome not Googles product ? That ad-driven company ? In that
case I would feel like giving a known thief the keys to my front door - not
a good idea.

True. Though the last XP-compatible version is probably not all that
sinful in itself - the offenders probably being the websites themselves.

I already had enough work to keep FireFox v52 from calling home every day
for ... whatever. :-(

)-: indeed. I don't _think_ my v27 calls home at all, though whether
that's intrinsic or because I've cut bits off when it tried, I can't
remember now. But sadly there are a lot of sites it now won't run (run
being the operative word, as websites are now programs).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


John
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