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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by masswerk on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:45AM (#35449810)
This would have been a viable path, when WebKit was still "a thing" and enjoyed some integration. I guess, with WebKit2, things became more complicated and resource heavy. Given the rapid development cycles and feature releases, I doubt an integrated web-view would be able to keep up, nowadays. Esp., if nothing short of 100% compatibility to current Chrome will do.

(That said, Firefox 78.15.0esr works still fine in most cases, but I doubt that this will be the case much longer, mostly because of CSS feature adoption.)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by mikae1 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:49AM (#35449842)
> The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr

I'll guess you'll be happy to see this: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy :)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by harry105 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:11AM (#35450927)
This is what I used on my 10.9 machine. Works great!