*In a Morpheus voice* What if I told you there are other browsers that still do... That fly's in the face of this statement from Mozilla:

Microsoft ended official support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in January of 2023. Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates and have known exploits. With no official support from Microsoft, maintaining Firefox for obsolete operating systems becomes costly for Mozilla and dangerous for users.

And this utter crap:

Will switching to a different browser keep me protected?

No. Most browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have already ended support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

i wonder what next software will decide to unsupport windows 7 and windows 8.1
i honestly can't handle all of these news but i guess there is nothing i can do about it
afterall who am i to stop these multi-millionare company's plans to unsupport my favorite windows
all i can i say is these news we are getting every month is devasting for all us windows 7 and windows 8.1 users

Quite frankly I don't give a damn who or what decides to "unsupport" W7. I will not be bullied into selling my soul to Microsoft's latest malware.

If you're not much of a gamer₁ then go Zorin Linux. Only problem there is some banks don't like Linux because they think it's a "hacker OS" or some stupid crap. Nothing could be farther from the truth and a useragent and other fingerprints can be forged. So out right blocking the Linux OS is massively stupid and pretty much sucks the you know what of Microsoft to keep people on their BS OS.

You could run a virtual machine in Linux though and run Winblows 10 or 11, etc. Use that ONLY for banking and nothing else. At least in that particular virtual OS.

That's all I can offer unless you're will to use Tiny10 which I am, but it needs an LTSC license key... Tiny10 strips all the utter crap out of it and so far so good on my end. It's available at archive.org...


Zorin OS - Make your computer better.

₁Sometimes trying to get games to work right in Linux can be a PITA...

I don't get this; I downloaded the ESR a few months back yet a week ago I got a red notification in the browser that says "unable to update - system incompatible" yet it says it will continue to update until September 2024, another year away.

What's nice is that websites like YouTube still function fine on Firefox 60, released May 9, 2018, which was 5 years ago. That means that the last Extended Security Update version of Firefox will still be fine for another few years!

Well, I'm sure some snot nose Google employee just read your post and will have that fixed in a jiffy (an actual unit of time I might add).

To play devil's advocate, sooner or latter things need to be updated. I mean, take the example of how you can't game or hardly even use the Internet with Windows 98se today. We all know that if it weren't for that fact Windows 10 and 11 weren't such a massive pile of goat crap we'd have no trouble at all migrating to the so-called "latest and greatest." But it's not "greatest". It's (the OS) is a piece of crap on so many levels it's not even funny. It's sad. They (Microsoft) turned their OS into one giant App-like environment really meant more for a tablet and pretty much blow torched the PC user/PC enthusiast.

It comes down to this: learn how to REALLY nerd out 10 and 11 by stripping it all the hell down. It sucks one has to do that, but it can be done and I'm sure there are lots of website tutorials and YouTube videos explaining how to do just that. Or just go with Zorin OS or some other Distro. Linux is pretty decent for those that just surf the Internet and print things. And you can game with it too, but in my opinion I feel Windows is better suited for that . If someone wanted to game in Linux they're stuck with AMD because AMD actually open sources their drivers unlike BS ("AI") Nvidia.

In a nutshell, Microsoft is just gonna corporate. And that's pretty much why the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was created. Sans some help here and there for the downtrodden to mask the real intent. And ol' slick billy got divorced due to his love affair with an island... Isn't there a mugshot of Bill floating around the Internets? Yeah...

F22 Simpilot said:

You could run a virtual machine in Linux though and run Winblows 10 or 11, etc. Use that ONLY for banking and nothing else.

Just change your user agent.