[HN Gopher] R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Wind...
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       R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Windows 7 and 8
       compatibility
        
       Author : XzetaU8
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-04-18 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | zamadatix wrote:
       | Similarly Supermium for ~current Chromium on XP+:
       | https://github.com/win32ss/supermium
        
       | Chronoyes wrote:
       | This is fantastic really. I run a Windows 7 laptop as part of my
       | setup, and there is a real dearth of resources for securing
       | Windows 7 online in 2024.
       | 
       | I'm shadow banned so no-one is going to read this comment.
        
         | warpech wrote:
         | I could read this
        
       | lemme_tell_ya wrote:
       | Why though? Microsoft will stop providing security updates at
       | some point (if they've not done so already.)
       | 
       | I could see the advantage if you had an industrial use for Win
       | 7/8, or perhaps in an air-gapped environment and for certain
       | software. But a privacy-enhanced Firefox seems like an odd choice
       | in such an environment.
        
         | ranger_danger wrote:
         | > Why?
         | 
         | Retro enthusiasts.
        
       | haunter wrote:
       | > SourceForge link for downloading with older browsers.
       | 
       | Yeah took me by surprise on an older, Snow Leopard Macbook that
       | even though Safari or an EOL Firefox can load Github the actual
       | download links under releseas won't show up
        
       | csdreamer7 wrote:
       | My first thought was "why don't they use Linux?".
       | 
       | But then I thought about it. A lot of older systems have lost
       | graphics support in modern Mesa and perhaps the kernel. Intel
       | also was very bad with graphics for a time (GMA 500). My brother
       | in law found a working 32bit laptop in the dumpster. It was able
       | to run Windows 10 without issues. It is slow, but it works and
       | for the time being, gets security updates.
       | 
       | Besides appliances (factory machines, atms) and retro
       | enthusiasts, not sure what is keeping people on 7 and 8 besides
       | the odd application or driver.
        
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