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Comment by hpaavola | Hacker News Reader

Are there any other good browsers for XP than Firefox? I think no, but I'm not sure. That would explain such high numbers.

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SlimJet[1][2] (formerly known as SlimBoat) is based on Chromium and still supports Win XP SP3. They added a lot of Firefox-like features like sidebar, customizable toolbar buttons, and download manager.

It also supports Chrome extensions. (No affiliation with them, I just use it to test my sites on XP machines)

[1] http://www.slimjet.com

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwIPqtyl_mM

Chrome stopped the support, Edge is not even available on 7, so not much left.

>> Edge is not even available on 7

Was there any explanation on why this is? It's one of the reasons I upgraded to 10, but wasn't very happy about it.

If you're asking about Edge, Microsoft is in the business of selling Windows, with Edge being one of the bones thrown to get users to upgrade, so not much incentive there.

The public answer from MS is I believe because it's incompatible with Windows 7 since it's built on Universal App platform.

Good old Opera before the unmentionable event.

Which doesn't support CloudFlare Free SSL used by many sites out there.

Incorrect. It does, since 12.18:

http://www.opera.com/blogs/security/2016/02/opera-12-and-ope...

on my ancient office computer I have taken to using k-meleon. It is a bit weird but doesn't make the laptop's fans run at full blast like chrome or firefox

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