I'm no computer expert (can't read or write a word of code) but many say that Midori and K-Meleon are among the most secure and/or easiest to use for XP. https://www.slant.co/versus/5236/12359/~k-meleon_vs_midori
I've been a Firefox user forever, but now that Mozilla XP "support" is ending this year-and because I'd like to squeeze yet another year or so out of my ancient Pentium IV desktops-I'm trying to confirm that these and/or
another "lightweight" browser will provide all of these Firefox functionality:
1.) Page Zooming of both text and images-and done via keyboard commands, like Ctrl and + or Ctrl and -.
2.) Incremental Search of text via commands, where in Firefox hitting Ctrl and F opens a dialogue box where you can type a word or number to search in the displayed web page.
3.) Easily save screenshots to an MS Word file; done in Firefox by hitting Alt and Print Screen and then pasting the image into the Word file page.
4.) Easily copy text and renderings of many image formats and paste to an MS Word file, using mouse and/or Ctrl and V keys.
That is, support for as many DOS and Windows keystrokes as possible.
5.) Fully compatible with at least two of the most popular Youtube downloading apps, such as https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader
6.) Easily create shortcut desktop icons to URLs. Ideally, this would be done via drag & drop, as in Firefox.
7.) No issues using my Microsoft Outlook free email account.
Ideally, but not essential, the selected browser would also include:
8.) Autocomplete, giving users to option to scroll quickly to a given set of similarly spelled words the browser generates after you enter 2 or 3 letters.
9.) Web history storage, like the drop down list of URLs that Firefox saves of websites you had visited consecutively, at least those since before you last cleaned out your history cache.
Again, I have zero code writing knowledge, so configuring a browser’s latest “distro” or adding a GUI to a browser are completely beyond my knowledge. Thus, I need a browser with a completely functional GUI, and which is which is at least nearly as easy to customize with simple mouse clicks as is Firefox.
OR should I stay with Opera Version 36?
https://alternativeto.net/list/52/updated-web-browsers-for-windows-xp
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/17/opera-36-will-be-the-last-for-windows-xp-and-vista/
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/browser-secure-old-windows-xp-system/
But will Opera likely keep their word and continuing “supporting” XP via Opera 36-that is, actually providing security updates to protect the highly vulnerable XP?
OR should I eventually transition to K-Meleon or another lightweight browser for XP that will provide as many of the above requested functionality as possible? Thank you.
I've been a Firefox user forever, but now that Mozilla XP "support" is ending this year-and because I'd like to squeeze yet another year or so out of my ancient Pentium IV desktops-I'm trying to confirm that these and/or
another "lightweight" browser will provide all of these Firefox functionality:
1.) Page Zooming of both text and images-and done via keyboard commands, like Ctrl and + or Ctrl and -.
2.) Incremental Search of text via commands, where in Firefox hitting Ctrl and F opens a dialogue box where you can type a word or number to search in the displayed web page.
3.) Easily save screenshots to an MS Word file; done in Firefox by hitting Alt and Print Screen and then pasting the image into the Word file page.
4.) Easily copy text and renderings of many image formats and paste to an MS Word file, using mouse and/or Ctrl and V keys.
That is, support for as many DOS and Windows keystrokes as possible.
5.) Fully compatible with at least two of the most popular Youtube downloading apps, such as https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader
6.) Easily create shortcut desktop icons to URLs. Ideally, this would be done via drag & drop, as in Firefox.
7.) No issues using my Microsoft Outlook free email account.
Ideally, but not essential, the selected browser would also include:
8.) Autocomplete, giving users to option to scroll quickly to a given set of similarly spelled words the browser generates after you enter 2 or 3 letters.
9.) Web history storage, like the drop down list of URLs that Firefox saves of websites you had visited consecutively, at least those since before you last cleaned out your history cache.
Again, I have zero code writing knowledge, so configuring a browser’s latest “distro” or adding a GUI to a browser are completely beyond my knowledge. Thus, I need a browser with a completely functional GUI, and which is which is at least nearly as easy to customize with simple mouse clicks as is Firefox.
OR should I stay with Opera Version 36?
https://alternativeto.net/list/52/updated-web-browsers-for-windows-xp
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/17/opera-36-will-be-the-last-for-windows-xp-and-vista/
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/browser-secure-old-windows-xp-system/
But will Opera likely keep their word and continuing “supporting” XP via Opera 36-that is, actually providing security updates to protect the highly vulnerable XP?
OR should I eventually transition to K-Meleon or another lightweight browser for XP that will provide as many of the above requested functionality as possible? Thank you.
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