I am sticking with Win7 and IE9.
When I put a new hard drive in my Win7 laptop a few weeks ago, Windows auto-updated and replaced IE9 with IE10. I thought I had auto-update turned off.
Anyway, I use an old tabbed IE-based browser for FR. This browser has some editing and productivity add-ons that are no longer available and which have no comparable modern equivalents. These add-on features are more important/valuable to me than and IE upgrade.
Well, IE10 killed the add-ons. They would work with 9, so I uninstalled 10. Windows defaulted to restoring 9. I am somewhat happy again.
From XP to Win7, I lost several programs that have no modern equivalents. I managed to tweak and trick a few others into working under Win7. I doubt any of them would work under Win8.1. I have a dead Minolta b/w laser printer — dead because no one developed a Win7 64-bit driver for it. I am tired of Windows upgrades that won’t support older peripherals.
The only thing worse than a Win/IE upgrade is Firefox’s rapid release insanity.
Newer is NOT always better. Many times it is WORSE. When they think they fixed what they broke the last time, they end up breaking something else.
Please evaluate using SeaMonkey instead of Firefox, if you don’t appreciate the upgrade insanity.