R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Windows 7 and 8 compatibility

This is fantastic really. I run a Windows 7 laptop as part of my setup, and there is a real dearth of resources for securing Windows 7 online in 2024.

I'm shadow banned so no-one is going to read this comment.

Similarly Supermium for ~current Chromium on XP+: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

My first thought was "why don't they use Linux?".

But then I thought about it. A lot of older systems have lost graphics support in modern Mesa and perhaps the kernel. Intel also was very bad with graphics for a time (GMA 500). My brother in law found a working 32bit laptop in the dumpster. It was able to run Windows 10 without issues. It is slow, but it works and for the time being, gets security updates.

Besides appliances (factory machines, atms) and retro enthusiasts, not sure what is keeping people on 7 and 8 besides the odd application or driver.

Why though? Microsoft will stop providing security updates at some point (if they've not done so already.)

I could see the advantage if you had an industrial use for Win 7/8, or perhaps in an air-gapped environment and for certain software. But a privacy-enhanced Firefox seems like an odd choice in such an environment.

I started using waterfox when firefox stopped supporting windows 7.

> SourceForge link for downloading with older browsers.

Yeah took me by surprise on an older, Snow Leopard Macbook that even though Safari or an EOL Firefox can load Github the actual download links under releseas won’t show up