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   Steve Hayes to burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll   
   Re: Web browsers for Windows XP   
   13 Feb 17 04:16:50   
   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:09:23 +0100, Sjouke Burry   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12.02.17 5:48, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> Does anyone know of a good web browser that works in Windows XP?   
   >>   
   >> I've been using Firefox, but it seems increasingly buggy lately. It   
   >> goes slower and slower, until all it says is "Not Responding" and it   
   >> keeps the hard drive churning so that everthing else runs slowly too,   
   >> until eventually I turn it off at the qwall and reboot.   
   >>   
   >> Every time I close it nowmally it asks me to send a crash report,   
   >> though it never does that when it actually crashes.   
   >>   
   >> So I'm looking for one that works better on XP.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >I am using FF45.3.0 ESR on Xp pro sp3, and it does a reasonable job.   
   >For the last 2 years I have not installed any XP M$ updates.   
      
   Do you get nagging messages to update it?   
      
      
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