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I've been thinking, just for fun, which browsers still would support Windows XP. The answer was that nothing current or even half decent really did and I had to go back quite a bit in time to find anything. So this actually fills a niche! If you for some reason want this. I for one probably need to try run an XP VM with this soon! :D Looking forward to the future Windows 2000 support!

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The most useful Mozilla-family browser is MyPal68, which is highly usable.

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68

I feel like New Moon (fork of Pale Moon) might be a better choice…

Why? Pale Moon is a fork of a very old release of Firefox, and that's not a good thing.

Win98 SE was the best OS Microsoft made.

In the trade, we used to call it "GameOS". I deployed it and attempted to support the wretched thing, and I always thought it was one of the worst ever.

It had the deeply stupid and crappy "Active Desktop", turning the good solid Win95/NT 4 Explorer into a slow and unstable POS that rendered via IE4 so that MS wouldn't get sued or split up by the Department of Justice for illegal restraint of trade in bundling IE with Windows.

A disastrous UI and its broken design contaminates every later release.

Underneath there were good changes: >4 IP addresses, multihead graphics and things.

But bundling IE meant it was broken junk, and that was unforgiveable.

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