Subj : Re: Browser for Older OS and Older Users
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Subject: Re: Browser for Older OS and Older Users
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Mark Lloyd wrote:
> VanguardLH (not Snuffy McKinney) wrote:
>
>>
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/system-requirements
>> That says Seamonkey still supports Windows 2000.
>
> That appears to be an old page. The current version of Seamonkey does
> NOT work on w2k.
>
> As I expected, the changes (that make the new version incompatible with
> w2k) are in the Gecko browser engine so would apply to any browser using it.
>
> I just tried it to verify this. Seamonkey (latest version) puts up an
> error message saying it requires at least XP SP2. The last version of
> Seamonkey that supports w2k is from same time as the last version of
> Firefox that supports w2k.
They need to update their documentation page(s); else, they mislead
their [prospective] users.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements
That page has support starting from Windows XP SP2. So it looks like
Maxthon and Avant Browser are left for use on Windows 2000. I didn't
bother researching all the minor variants of web browsers.
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