"Norm Cook" wrote

| Using Chrome For XP Version 49.0.2623.75
| Works well despite warnings that it will soon no longer be
| supported.
|
| Has any figured out how to avoid the 'Your clock is ahead/behind?'
|
| I have IE8 installed but it won't open any https website.
|
| Any other browsers that work well with XP?
|

I don't understand the clock question. As for browsers,
I'm using Firefox 52.9 and New Moon 28.6. I got the latest
NM awhile back but had problems with it. I don't remember
offhand what they were.

Another good thing to do, which Chrome may not allow,
is to spoof the userAgent. Demanding only the latest
browser has become an epidemic of incompetence and
exploitation online. (I'm often not sure whether they don't
know what they're doing or whether they only accept the
latest in the sense of wanting to track data like geo-location
from the browser.)

Most sites will stop complaining with the userAgent spoofed.
I think I'm currently running as Win7-64 with FF 76.

Are there sites that *really* won't work without a browser
less than a year old? I don't know. It's possible. If anyone
knows of such a case I'd be interested to know exactly what
functionality such a website depends on. I don't use my main
machine to do risky things like enabling script, and I don't
use any kind of social media, so I haven't tried to access many
sites. I wonder if some of those sites are eventually just going
to break on desktop computers, demanding the tracking options
available on phones.

A separate factor that may become an increasing problem is
that there seems to be a new browser wars brewing. MS is
trying to force New Edge on people. Google is trying to recreate
AOL and force Chrome on people. It could get ugly.