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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by mtrower on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:58AM (#34706186)
> My 12 year old Mac laptop is dead because MacOS does not allow me to upgrade past a certain version, and the cryptography primitives do not update past that so no recent browsers support the platform

What version of macOS are you stuck on? It can’t even run Sierra? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.0.1/system-require...

The bigger issue for me is increasing requirements. My 2012 MacBook Air went to absolute dog when upgrading to Catalina. Terrible user experience (which, I believe, is one reason why Apple sets requirements the way they do).

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by kajecounterhack on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:45AM (#34710714)
It was either snow leopard or lion. Chrome and Firefox would install but be unable to visit https websites because of missing crypto things it needed. It was surprising to me too.
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