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Best Browser for WinXP
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I have been using FireFox 52 (newest version for XP), but at times I can not log in at a web site unless I use a newer version. I have to use a Linux laptop with a newer FF. Note: I do not like Linux as much as WinXP. Is there another browser such as Sea Monkey that would be more compatible with these web sites? Thank You in advance, John |
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Best Browser for WinXP
Oh dear!. Why did you get this message? Are you sure you are using the correct Newsgroup compliant newsreader? Try reinstalling Mozilla Thunderbird to see if it makes any difference. The post contains a very important topic that you may not want to miss.
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| I have been using FireFox 52 (newest version for XP), but at times I can | not log in at a web site unless I use a newer version. I have to use | a Linux laptop with a newer FF. Note: I do not like Linux as much as | WinXP. | I've been using New Moon lately. The versions keep up with FF versions, but are compatible with XP and low on funny business. My only complaint is that the last version I tried broke at least one of my extensions, so I went back to 28.6, about a year old. Also note that it's worth experimenting with changing your userAgent. But Mozilla got sneaky about that. There are now 2 settings: If this setting does not exist you need to create it as a boolean value: general.useragent.enable_overrides True This setting is a string value: setting: general.useragent.override value: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 Watch for wordwrap there. That will tell them you're on Win7 with a recent version of FF. The reason that's so important is because many sites simply refuse to support XP and many sites check for older browsers. I've run across it numerous times. A site works perfectly fine if I spoof but not otherwise. There's been an epidemic of kiddie coders jazzing up websites to an extreme degree, using gobs of scripting, and generally not knowing what they're doing. Some very impressive and responive sites can come out of that but they're extremely complicated. Essentially software programs that you download. In some cases it might be true that your browser won't handle them. But in most cases it's just that people are rigging their sites to only work with the most recent technology. They can't be bothered with anything else. As a realtor once said to me when I suggested he might want to rethink using Flash: "My clients will be using the best technology." The design of HTML was intended to support "degrading gracefully", which means that if a browser doesn't recognize new elements it will still do its best to render a page. And the job of the webmaster is to support that by trying to write pages that support as many browsers as possible. Those days are gone. The whole commercial Web is now acting like the bratty teenager who puts a notice on his webpage to explain how it's best viewed. For example, I've been blocking NOSCRIPT tags for years, with script usually disabled. The purpose of those tags is to provide alternate content for people without script enabled. But no one does that anymore. They only use NOSCRIPT to specify spyware beacon images. I've seen it numerous times: A page is completely broken without script. It may even be plain white. But the code includes NOSCRIPT tags to ensure that Facebook and Google can still track your visit. It's not about usable webpages. It's about how to get something from you when you visit. If not money then at least tracking data. |
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Best Browser for WinXP
On 12:36 4 Aug 2020, John said:
I have been using FireFox 52 (newest version for XP), but at times I can not log in at a web site unless I use a newer version. I have to use a Linux laptop with a newer FF. Note: I do not like Linux as much as WinXP. Is there another browser such as Sea Monkey that would be more compatible with these web sites? Thank You in advance, John Sometimes changing the user agent ID can help. Google for a string from more recent version of Firefox and try it. http://www.whatismybrowser.com/guide...-agent/firefox The MyPal browser (branching from PaleMoon) customises Firefox to work on XP but I'm not sure what version it uses. It could be something like FFX v60. https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal |
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