LegacyUpdate VS user.js

KernelEX it's your friend. And http://legacyupdate.net, but I think for W98SE and up.

Now, useful software for w9x (there's a good chunk of libre software too, as 7Zip and retrozilla + an Ublock Origin plugin for it):

http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/

Windows Update (W2K and up): http://legacyupdate.net

Needed for dependencies on some software.

Hexchat will work well against the Bitlbee IRC servers at https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/servers.html

Here you might set several bridge accounts, including IRC+TLS, Jabber, Discord...

On XP you can use Legacy Update. https://legacyupdate.net/

If you wish to try to update it use legacy update.net

I saw an ATM reboot into XP kiosk mode the other week.

Struck me as a bit unsafe?

BTW this also exists or did exist for "Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000"

https://github.com/kirb/LegacyUpdate

Try using Legacy Update and it works for Windows 95 to Windows 8.1. Legacy Update

google a key / use an activator (KMS etc) then : https://legacyupdate.net/

You should run Legacy Update first to get security updates up to 2019, https://legacyupdate.net Hopefully WGA doesn't annoy you

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.