Me? I'd rather run an up-to-date browser (security wise) on top of an up-to-date OS (security wise) If they what to build a browser castle on top of a sand Win7 foundation, so be it, the next wave of viruses will teach them the foolishness of that endeavour. Safari is FOSS, people can fork it and make a Win7 browser. Win7 has been out of support for us Plebs since Jan 2020, and will run out of support for big pocket entities this year What are Alphabet and FF suppoed to do? Keep burning money in that money pit? FF is not precisely flush with cash to spare, and Google, being a for-profit could use that money somewhere else.Ĭhromium is FOSS, people can fork it and make a Win7 browser, FF is FOSS, people can fork ESR 102 and make a Win7 Browser. Making the browser run on many OSs cost money and complicates the source code, or if you code for the least common denominators, does not allow to use advanced functions.

Testing the Browser on many OSs costs money, if the browser fails, the bad publicity could cost millions. Google joining 0patch to 'keep the dream alive' for Win7? It tends to be limited to enumeration of ideological predispositions /w people saying x is hard in abstract terms never in terms o

What is always missing from these discussions is objective evidence based information.

It's interesting to me people can create cross platform browsers that work across radically different operating systems with completely different technology stacks yet the thing that is 'surprisingly difficult' is the presence of new APIs in a highly backwards compatible operating environment. The new APIs tend to enable things people need (better security) or want (enhanced multimedia.) Refusing to use the new stuff will have people asking 'why can't your program do X' and using them means you need to stub out or reimplement the features if you want to keep working in older OSs. New features mean new APIs that aren't supported in older versions. New features get added to OSs all the time even if the base API doesn't change much. They could probably be made to work, but keeping modern internet-connected programs working on older operating systems is surprisingly difficult.

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