[TomGuy]

Home users don’t necessarily need an OS to be “in support”, especially if they are satisfied with their present apps and browser.

Yes and no.

I recall with WinXP that my browser could not handle many of the newer videos and websites. That and a hard drive crash forced me to Win7.

I have noticed recently that some of the older browsers (Firefox ESR 52 and Comodo IceDragon 42) struggle with some graphic intensive websites. I figure HTML5 and similar newer coding will eventually make Win7 browsers unusable.

I have seen some notices that Adobe Flash dies in a couple of years. It will be interesting to see how that impacts Win7 browsers.

[Dr. Sivana]

I recall with WinXP that my browser could not handle many of the newer videos and websites.

The geeky way around that is to load a VM Player and run a flavor of 32-bit Linux under WinXP. Modern content is designed to run on phones with 32-bit browsers, and even an old i3 or Core2Duo will outperform the Atoms and older ARM processors on low end laptops and tablets.

[_Jim]

re: I recall with WinXP that my browser could not handle many of the newer videos and websites. That and a hard drive crash forced me to Win7.

I have noticed recently that some of the older browsers (Firefox ESR 52 and Comodo IceDragon 42) struggle with some graphic intensive websites. I figure HTML5 and similar newer coding will eventually make Win7 browsers unusable.

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I use THREE (3) different browsers on account that one or another may not handle HTML5/video on some Youtube videos OR security may not be handled some sites ...

OS here is Win XP SP3.

Browsers are Flashpeak Slimjet, FireFox and Mypal.