@blackbird71 said in Questions and Confusions:
@joshl said in Questions and Confusions:
... No, I have not tried other browsers yet. And I'm not sure if I will: Chrome is buggy, outdated and dangerous, even perhaps infested; my Opera 36 gets me BSoD every exit now; the Good Old Opera 11 I won't even try; my Midori is, too, outdated, and even then when I used on OperaForums it had layout issues. So, perhaps Midori would be the only one I could try, but - considering it already had layout issues ...
You're up against a shrinking software availability selection, due to XP's increasing age/obsolesence. Many of the chromium-based and Firefox-derived browsers that are still updated will be deprecating their XP support by June 2018. The few remaining XP-specified candidates that offer some hope and hints of longer-term support and that might be worth installing and trying against this site are:
Advanced Chrome Custom-build (54.15.5320.0, based on Chrome, 3/13/17)
Slimjet 10 family (10.0.13.0, based on chromium 50, 2/8/17)
Otter - still in pre-release (0.9.92 release candidate 2, based on Qt, 11/1/17)
Lunascape (6.15.1.27563, based on 3 engines - but its Trident engine may be problematic, 5/27/17)
Even with these browsers, there are no guarantees regarding how long they will stick with XP-compatible updating, since the work and patching required to keep them secure and current will become ever more complex as chromium and Firefox engines further evolve without their own internal XP provisioning. One thing that will eventually cause problems for any browser on XP will be loss of browsing compatibility with secure SSL websites that are increasingly migrating to eliptical-curve cryptography - XP can't handle it in support of installed browsers.
Thank you for your heads-up, Blackbird.
