Browsing from WinXP, perspectives and special solutions

[silverni]

Reference to an old thread:

The browsing tends to become the Achilles' heel of Windows XP, which otherwise is still perfectly adequate and more productive than its successors.
Fortunately, fairly up-to-date browsers are still available in WinXP, thanks to the contributions of some developers.
For access to institutional sites there should be no problem for years to come (there are specific laws for accessibility), but access to sites that are "modernists" is problematic even today.
For retrieve information from Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and others, I use procedures atypical (I basically disable CSS and javascript), to interact I use the specific interfaces that these sites offer for old or limited browsers, e.g.:
<https://old.reddit.com/>  instead of   <https://www.reddit.com/>

In extreme cases (but I have never needed them), I have available some advanced solutions, which still allow me to have available all the data personal data that I access in WinXP:
1. From within XP start a Win7 virtual machine and use modern browsers that do not run on WinXP.
2. From within XP start an Android virtual machine and use Chrome or other known up-to-date browsers, or apps specific to the service you want to access.
3. Use as through an Android smartphone or tablet by controlling it from WinXP, e.g. via MyPhoneExplorer, and an updated browser or a dedicated app; the control from WinXP allows you to type from the PC keyboard all the information available in WinXP (passwords, etc.).
4.Use as through an NT6+ laptop system controlled by WinXP, and use modern browsers.
5. Exit WinXP and start Windows 10 (multiboot PC), and use modern browsers. Notes:
a. From Windows 10 I access most of the programs and all the personal data I I use in WinXP.
b. My Win10 installation is heavily customized, and the user interface looks a lot like WinXP.
c. In Windows 10 I disabled Windows Update, the main source of system instability and control difficulties; it has been updated for about eight years, which should be enough to get a stable system.

If the use of these "special systems" becomes frequent, it will be time to switch from WinXP to Win10 as the main operating system.

Regards