Hmm, personally I enjoy both chrome and video streaming but to each their own!
In practice, even if you managed, say, to port a modern Firefox and all its baggage down to OpenSSL and even GCC to compile it in a mighty for of herculean effort, it would still likely die of a thousand paper cuts anyway because quite a lot of syscalls would be expected to have evolved since.
But other modern codebases will want more modern syscalls without fallbacks and compromises (see those atomic file operations which solve some nasty vulnerabilities for an example).