> But disabling a browser just because the coders wish to force upgrades is
not anything I'll support. There's other fish in the sea. (Pun intended). ;)
If you are under the impression that it was removed by the SeaMonkey devs you
are wrong. SeaMonkey just picked it up from Firefox. At the time Firefox 49
was in Beta VS2015 update 2 had a bug which put SSE2 instructions into the
generated code. Instead of going back to VS2013 it was decided to make SSE2
mandatory for Windows. VS20215 Update 3 fixed the bug but it was too late. And
seriously it 2016 not 2001 and there are good reasons to do this. Generated
code especially HTML5 support will benefit from it.
Same with the XP and Vista removal. Support libraries (I think LIBICU and
maybe others) used by the backend removed XP and Vista support. Makes it hard
to support a product when you can use newer versions. I dodn't like it becasue
I use XP on another PC with special hardware. Upgrading is not an option. But
the next ESR release will probably support it till 2018.
IE8 is useless and there is no other browser properly supporting XP anymore.
FRG
[email protected] wrote:
I actually have three Dell laptops running Win 7.1, Win 8.1, and Win 10
respectively. All Latitudes, 2-D620 & 1-D630. I have WinXP on a spare HDD that
I swap in/out for some progs that won't even install on the post-XP O/S's.
All my favorite progs that I spent lots of money on are right here on a full
tower PC with a Tualatin-S 1.4Ghz CPU and Windows XP. They all function as
intended and serve my modest needs well.
I've tried many distros of Linux over the years; I even still have the BeOS in
my library. It was the best competitor to Windows, until Microsoft bought it
and killed it.
I don't particularly like Internet Explorer; the favorites toolbar in Seamonkey
is the main reason I've stuck with it over the years.
But disabling a browser just because the coders wish to force upgrades is not
anything I'll support. There's other fish in the sea. (Pun intended). ;)
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