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This is not a sensible or technically sound thing to do. It is purely irrational. Win7 is already stuck on Chrome 110/111(?).
You are not gaining much by doing this, and are assuming significant risk, even if specific portions can be quantified away, it's the unknown unknowns that should scare you.
Try a Linux distro maybe? With some non-default themes and Wine, it will make a better WinXP than WinXP.
Or at least use something like https://github.com/kirb/LegacyUpdate or the pirated SP3 ISOs that could (can still?) get updates for the relevant version of POSReady -- Win7 POSReady is supported until late 2024.
There are up-to-date builds of Chromium for 10.9.5. (Actually, they work as far back as 10.7, Lion)
https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
I daily-drive this browser on a 10.9 Mavericks Hackintosh. It's great.
Change its appearance theme to the windows one (in the settings app), disable the bottom bar/dock and move the top bar down to the bottom. Now you've got a typical windows style start menu. XFCE is very flexible and you can configure the docks/bars to feel like old windows, old Mac, etc. Ita file manager (thunar) is basically a a perfect copy of Windows file explorer from the XP era.
If you want to go full old windows it's an easy next step to run this theme's setup script: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
The guy who developed stb_image writes all his software on Visual C++ 6 from 1998
https://github.com/nothings/stb
> Why not C99? stdint.h, declare-anywhere, etc.
> I still use MSVC 6 (1998) as my IDE because it has better human factors for me than later versions of MSVC.
Hey, Congratulations on your upgrade to Windows 7!
Not 48 hours ago, I spoke highly of the benefits of Windows 7[1], as a user myself.
It is absolutely possible to use Windows 7 reasonably securely, if you take the appropriate precautions(again, see my comment)
> I can use the latest versions of Google Chrome
Firefox? Yes. Chrome? No.
Chromium 109 is the last version to support Windows 7. Here's the last working ungoogled variant [2].
Switch to LibreWolf[3] Firefox based browser with user.js modifications[3] pre-installed. Or if you don't trust librewolf, use Firefox and manually add the same user.js[4]
It's better for security than Chrome could ever hope to be.
Your web browser's javascript continue to be the predominant way for malware to make its entry. So just make sure to take the appropriate security precautions, as mentioned in my comment [1].
> When Firefox stopped receiving upgrades I switched to Mypal browser, an open source browser specially made for Windows XP. It is cruder than Google Chrome but does the job most of the time.
Have you tried K-Meleon on Windows XP[5]? It's Old Firefox(pre-Australis) based, and still gets updates.
Windows 7 is the last legit good Microsoft Operating System.
It truly is a wonder and a delight to use and modify.
Anyway, all the very best on your Windows 7 journey. May it serve you well.
Cheers!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431587
[2] https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases/tag/v109.541...
[3] https://librewolf.net/installation/windows/
[4] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
[5] https://kmeleonbrowser.org
Hey, Congratulations on your upgrade to Windows 7!
Not 48 hours ago, I spoke highly of the benefits of Windows 7[1], as a user myself.
It is absolutely possible to use Windows 7 reasonably securely, if you take the appropriate precautions(again, see my comment)
> I can use the latest versions of Google Chrome
Firefox? Yes. Chrome? No.
Chromium 109 is the last version to support Windows 7. Here's the last working ungoogled variant [2].
Switch to LibreWolf[3] Firefox based browser with user.js modifications[3] pre-installed. Or if you don't trust librewolf, use Firefox and manually add the same user.js[4]
It's better for security than Chrome could ever hope to be.
Your web browser's javascript continue to be the predominant way for malware to make its entry. So just make sure to take the appropriate security precautions, as mentioned in my comment [1].
> When Firefox stopped receiving upgrades I switched to Mypal browser, an open source browser specially made for Windows XP. It is cruder than Google Chrome but does the job most of the time.
Have you tried K-Meleon on Windows XP[5]? It's Old Firefox(pre-Australis) based, and still gets updates.
Windows 7 is the last legit good Microsoft Operating System.
It truly is a wonder and a delight to use and modify.
Anyway, all the very best on your Windows 7 journey. May it serve you well.
Cheers!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431587
[2] https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases/tag/v109.541...
[3] https://librewolf.net/installation/windows/
[4] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
[5] https://kmeleonbrowser.org
Do you perchance happen to also be roytam1 on the official k-meleon forums[1] and other places[2][3]?
If so, thank you so much for your work! Also please get https://piped.video working in k-meleon somehow.
If you're not that RoyTam, I rescind the previous thank you, and the request.
[1] http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?19,154431,157231,pa...
[2] https://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/
[3] https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/