Paul wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:36:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:


It has been a long time, but I had to switch from XP to Win7 (I



*Had* to? Why do you say that? Not that I'm saying you shouldn't, but
hardly anyone ever has to.

Sometimes, this is necessitated by the lack of
continued browser development for WinXP.

Maybe you need TLS 1.2 to visit certain websites, and
only a newer browser has it.

The last Chrome for WinXP was a couple years ago. The last
Seamonkey for WinXP has been produced, and the next one
likely won't run on WinXP. And Firefox 52ESR was the last
for them I suspect.

Paul

Fortunately, not quite yet, as the latest WinXP versions of FF and Chrome
still work ok, at least on all the sites I've visited and needed. But I can
see the day is coming. And there have been a few occasions when I've needed
to use Chrome to get everything to appear as intended, even though I prefer
using FF. But as we've both noted, I think the browser limitations are
going to be the limiting factor, for the continuing use of WinXP in the
future.