(something) on a flash-drive, so when it came time to I refresh my windows program (8.1 home) I would install it and it worked fine. What I did for years was: I had what I recall was Firefox 58. I could not afford a pair so I bought a monocle instead – at least now I have 1920 vision. Funny you should mention roaring twenties, just recently my sight was getting bad so I went to get glasses … We’re positioning Alert to Level 3 (out of 5) :=) Whatever, year 2023 (hey! we’re there already!) promises its lot of upheavals. – applications, software : no other choice as long as i remain faithful to Windows 7 : I’ll have to stick to latest versions not requiring a “modern” OS (as dancings requiring an evening wear to move around on the dance floor!). – browsers Firefox 109.0 and it’ll be last Firefox ESR the day Mozilla decides to require a post-Win7(8.1) Windows OS For the latter I use the ‘User-Agent Switcher’ by Erin Schlarb which tricks such sites so nicely I get to wonder if it’s honest :=) No idea how it’d work when it comes to falsifying an OS … Here on the Web discotheques are software and dancings are Websites.įor the Websites, I haven’t encountered yet any requiring Win7, though a few do require Chrome. Reminds me a roaring life in the roaring seventies when discotheques, dancings would filter visitors sometimes with an excessive zeal :=) For now, Firefox is one, if not the, best option to run a browser on Windows 7 or 8.1.

These may be introduced at a later point in time, once Mozilla makes a decision regarding end of support.

The browser makers won't provide installers anymore, and if installers are copied from other devices or mirrors, they will not run or the installed browser will refuse to run.įirefox, on the other hand, does not have any restrictions right now.

The offline installer for Edge Dev displayed a prompt stating that a problem was detected with the Windows installer package.Īll Firefox channels installed and ran just fine on the Windows 7 system.Ĭhrome, Microsoft Edge, and likely many other Chromium-based browsers will stop working on Windows 7 once the stable versions reach Chromium 110. Microsoft Edge threw another error message on the test system. Installation of Chrome Canary fails with the error message 'no update is available'. It is possible that Google has not changed the error message yet. It states that Google Chrome requires Windows 7 or higher. The installation of Chrome 111 Dev fails with an odd error message. The error message was not new, and it is possible that the virtual machine had something to do with it. Here is what happens when you try to install these development editions on the unsupported versions of Windows.Ĭhrome 110 Beta installs fine, but it throws a kernel issue when you try to run it.

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