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?

The unfortunate division of labor, is browsers sometimes
rely on system services, for part of their protocol support.

On Linux, you might have the crypto as local code within the
browser program. And that means, if they wanted, they could
use that Linux code, on Windows.

On Windows, there's an SChannel, which is great, except when
OS updates stop and it drifts "out of date". A few web servers
rely on TLS 1.3 and CHACHA20 for an https connection. There
are also certificates that must be maintained on the client
connection, in order for https to work. If you rely on an
OS that stopped support in 2014, there will eventually be
consequences.

The whole thing turns into a "maintenance-full" exercise.
It pays lip service to backward compatibility, in that the
participants pretend that every version *except* the current
bleeding edge, is hopelessly compromised and insecure. The
server decides whether a client gets in. And if you see
some of the comments about Internet Explorer on the web,
you'll understand how it's easy for some people to break
it and offer a degraded user experience.

Some day soon, the degraded user experience will be
reserved for everyone not using Chrome, and it'll have
to be a modern version of Chrome too. They'll even ****
on Chrome 49. The web will become MonoChromeAtic.

Paul