On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:06:57 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
wrote:

>> And I've had only one rejection on my Windows 7 lasptop, because I
>> haven't updated Firefox for a couple of months, mainly because I fear
>> it will be even more bloated and run even more slowly than the one I'm
>> using now.
>
>New versions of Chrome and Firefox, won't work on Windows 7.
>Or at least that was the threat. It's not a technical issue as such,
>but it is enforced somehow.
>
>This means, if you were to click a button to make Firefox upgrade,
>it will not make it to the current release (whatever that is). It
>will stop short, by about four or five numbers or so.
>
>At the moment, a Windows 7 user who is using the "last ever" Firefox
>for them, should not suffer from that choice.
>
>the intention of the companies, is to try to make Windows 7 as
>"unwelcome" as Windows XP. Even though they are not the same
>OS, and don't have the same problems. Windows 7 is still capable
>of running the software, but they won't let it happen.

My Windows 7 machine was stolen, so now I'm limited to the sites
accessible with my Windows XP machine. I use Firefox 41 with No
Script, Opera and Maxthon and if one of them doesn't access the site,
sometimes one of the others does, though Facebook has started tossing
me off.

The great advantage of Firefox v41 with NoScript is that I usually
don't see those "We value your privacy" popups. What does pop up, but
*before* the site opens, is, within the browser, "This site wants to
set a cookie" and I usually click on "this session only" unless I
think I'm likely to return to the site a lot. That, it stikes me, was
a much better solutiopn than all the "we value your privacy" crap.

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On 11/6/23 22:30, Steve Hayes wrote:

[snip]

> The great advantage of Firefox v41 with NoScript is that I usually
> don't see those "We value your privacy" popups. What does pop up, but
> *before* the site opens, is, within the browser, "This site wants to
> set a cookie" and I usually click on "this session only" unless I
> think I'm likely to return to the site a lot. That, it stikes me, was
> a much better solutiopn than all the "we value your privacy" crap.

I was using the "make cookies session cookies" option for years before
hearing of GDPR. Its easily overridden for sites where you do want to
keep cookies.

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 12:23:59 -0600, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid>
wrote:

>On 11/6/23 22:30, Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> The great advantage of Firefox v41 with NoScript is that I usually
>> don't see those "We value your privacy" popups. What does pop up, but
>> *before* the site opens, is, within the browser, "This site wants to
>> set a cookie" and I usually click on "this session only" unless I
>> think I'm likely to return to the site a lot. That, it stikes me, was
>> a much better solutiopn than all the "we value your privacy" crap.
>
>I was using the "make cookies session cookies" option for years before
>hearing of GDPR. Its easily overridden for sites where you do want to
>keep cookies.

Yes, but that doesn't seem to be an option on newer browsers.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk