Michael
Michael Fidler wrote:
Microsoft and others have been making noise about dropping support for
the following:
- Java Applets
- SHA1 base certificates
- SSL3, TLS1.0, TLS1.1 required for the obsolete GlassFish server are
also on the radar
Most of these are already gone from current Firefox versions or will be
soon discontinued. SeaMonkey uses the Firefox Gecko engine as the
backend and so these will also be removed from SeaMonkey.
- IE itself will go away at some point given their investment in Edge
I wouldn't worry too much about IE. It is still in Windows 8.1 and
supported until 2023. But the SSL support might be a problem. I think MS
will phase out SHA1 soon. Likely with Vista EOL in 2017. Funny that IE8
and XP will still be somewhat supported till 2019 with a registry hack :)
It was proposed that we could use an open source browser which we could
manage, prevent it from getting updated and use it exclusively with the
application.
You could use and older Firefox or SeaMonkey. If SeaMonkey I would
suggest trying 2.33.1 or 2.35. Should work fine with Windows 7. They are
completely outdated now and have known bugs but for the most part should
do the job. Just make sure to keep them away from the Internet outside
of your web page for security reasons. Can be installed in parallel with
IE 11 and you can try them out.
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