Next time you don’t want to update your operating system to do the same things on the Internet you did 5 years ago, #Firefox is your friend.

@firefox

  • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 days ago

    An OS becomes obsolete when you can’t update browsers in spite of ‘official’ support (which typically ends earlier).

    Surely that only applies to operating systems that are built around browsers, like Chrome OS. Which other OS needs a browser in order to function?

    All Chromium-based browsers are made obsolete at the same time.

    How? When? How could a FOSS project with Billions of users possibly ever become obsolete? Is this just some kind of thought experiment?

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I think they mean getting online in an OS that no longer supports (or rather isn’t supported by) the latest version of chromium.

      That said, going online with an outdated/unsupported OS isn’t a great idea even if Firefox does still support it.

      And from what I’m seeing the latest Firefox system requirements are very similar to the Chrome requirements too.