Vistapocalypse

Not even the Chinese ever backported newer Firefox versions to XP/Vista AFAIK, presumably because their customers preferred Chromium. The only full-blown backport I know of is MyPal 68 by feodor2, and of course roytam1 backported Pale Moon and certain Firefox components. Perhaps there will be developers who love both Windows 7 and Firefox enough to make that kind of effort. Time will tell.

This is an actual announcement from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

America has no more mental health problems than other countries: our nuts are just heavily armed and watched too many Westerns. I’m glad that Hollywood finally stopped making those old things.

I don’t blame you. I started this topic because I believe that mental health issues have been affecting MSFN in recent years, and this really is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States. The month of May will soon be over, and hopefully this topic will soon be abandoned by even the most compulsive posters - but hopefully an increased awareness will remain.

Windows version requires Windows 10 x64, or you could use PlayStation etc.

Did you know that “funny farm” is synonymous with “loony bin,” “nut house,” “Bedlam,” “booby hatch” (thanks D.Draker for the last two) - all of which are euphemisms for “insane asylum” or “psychiatric hospital”? One such place was Pescadero, where Sarah Connor was unjustly incarcerated in the second Terminator movie.

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No apologies necessary in this so-called topic. Let’s just try to prevent technical threads from becoming “12 pages of rubbish” please.

I’m surprised to hear that you have “advanced age.” I also suffer from that fatal condition.

Welcome AstroSkipper! Your erstwhile absence from this topic was quite conspicuous to me. Although I don’t always agree with your opinions and don’t think you are as objective as you would like to believe, I appreciate your drive in taking charge of the security software discussion in the XP forum. You’re the best we’ve got! Still, I can’t help wondering if you have some sort of diagnosis. Happy Mental Health Awareness Month!

This old guy doesn’t recall ever listening to “Garbage” before, but it does seem to be “on topic.” Thanks!

Ten pages of rubbish! And I was the one who started it all. Poor legacyfan has left the forum twice during this topic, but the young fellow has a monkey on his back. 🐒 Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! 🤪

Speaking of very old firewalls, it seems like Comodo was famous for firewalls before they ever made an antivirus. I just searched the well-known older thread, and Comodo Firewall was mentioned but no version number or download link was provided. (I never used it.)

Nine pages already, and Mental Health Awareness Month still has a week remaining!? I actually quit reading this topic about a week ago myself, but by all means keep those replies coming.

MSFN seems much calmer today - almost as if everyone is on Xanax. Keep taking those meds everyone, and I hope the remainder of Mental Health Awareness Month will be pleasant for you.

I understand you perfectly! I just counted TEN posts by D.Draker in this topic (and another 3 by Cocodile), so Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! 😂🤣🤪

That article was posted March 29. I thought you said

A link might have been helpful.

I can at least give XP users an idea of what version of Comodo to search for if they want to attempt it. I was able to install CIS 12.0.0.6810 on Vista x86 in March 2019 but did not keep it for long. WinClient5270’s list shows 12.0.0.6870 as the last version of Comodo Free and CIS for Vista, and Note about Windows XP / Vista at the following link states, “CIS 12.0.0.6882 and above does not support Windows XP or Vista, period” (among other discouraging words). I don’t know of any official download link and actually doubt that SHA-1 definitions are still being provided. https://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-772-9552-.html

I hate to say this, but there is definite correlation between preoccupation with legacy versions of Windows and mental health issues, which is why I say: Happy Mental Health Awareness Month MSFN! 🤪

One reason I encouraged AstroSkipper to start a new thread was so that the already-overlong older thread could become an expendable “scratch pad” in hopes of sparing his new thread from a similar “hyperinflation,” and this has worked out to some degree.

Today I’m just glad that I’m not a moderator here. It occurs to me that the quantity of “antivirus for XP” discussion this year has been disproportionate to the number of XP users who don’t already have a preferred security solution. 🤔 On the other hand, one might expect definition updates for some of the “legacy” solutions to cease most any time now, so a discussion of all the remaining options may yet prove very valuable for XP diehards. Happy Mental Health Awareness Month!

Crickets!? Perhaps everyone is all too familiar with Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage already? My next musical selection for Mental Health Awareness Festival is a song titled Paranoia by an obscure Canadian group called Klaatu who I listened to as a youngster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynskgNIphaM

Thank you for your interest in Mental Health Awareness Month! Here is a link to the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Awareness_Month A festival sounds like a great idea! Perhaps we could have our own little festival in this thread? Perhaps a little music might liven things up a bit? I wonder if you young fellows ever listened to Pink Floyd, a famous rock group that first appeared during the psychedelic sixties? One of its founding members was Syd Barrett, who by all accounts was quite mentally ill and took entirely too much LSD. He was the band’s singer, guitarist and songwriter in their early days - but his fellow band members ultimately decided to kick him out. Nevertheless, mental health (or the lack thereof) continued to be a recurring theme in Pink Floyd’s music. The group became phenomenally successful with the release of Dark Side of the Moon In 1973, a concept album about the human condition. Here’s how the album ended: 🤕 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z39KZAryzk

@freakedenough You didn’t actually say if you are able to use Windows Mail and/or Outlook 2003/2007 in the year 2023? If you can, then perhaps Sergiaws was not aware that Vista x64 required more registry changes than Vista x86 for TLS 1.2 (however he did mention “internet options” in first sentence). Possibly relevant: Outlook 2007 did not use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine: https://www.wired.com/2007/01/outlook-2007-adopts-ms-word-rendering-engine/