Read the last posts. Blocked in the installer, but extracting the files and overwriting the old ones presumably works. Not useful, as 115ESR gets longer support, anyway.
Companies artificially blocking updates on operating systems that have no problem running that software if a little string says NT=10. It happened with „Windows Vista“ and now with „Windows 7/8/8.1“ Of course some software that have edited kernel system changes, API calls that simply don't exist or etc. that need heavy work to be adapted are fine in saying to be not supported, but if I can CFF edit and the software runs fine, then that's just sad. Not to mention all of these „Your operating system is not supported since 2020“, the thing is they just ignore ESU, which is in the furthest 2024 and it's quite easy to get it running (Thanks to MDL and the devs here of course). I do wonder what „Mozilla“ is going to do (They do have „Thunderbird“ which is tied to „Firefox“, I haven't seen any posts about that) and „Steam“ the most, they really shot themselves's in the foot (Running „Chrome 85“ for years and then complaining that „Supporting „Windows 7/8/8,1“ can't be done, because security) If they really did care, they would have updated to 109 a long time ago, but to this day, it still reports itself as V85, call it „Top notch security“.
Because it is (by far) the best browser out there? Already explained many times, just take your time, read, and try to understand what you read.
Thanks... sooner or later Í will have to give up looking for an alternative for Firefox. It is really hard to believe that Firefox being so bad, everything else seems to be even worse....
On Windows 8.1 Firefox 116,117 and 118 (a1) work fine. Furthermore, Opera 101 (based on Chromium 115) is also working with some tweaks. Office v2309 is also working. Personally, Win7 reminds me of XP and 8.1 of Vista. It‘s much easier to port back software to 8.1, as developers often require apis, which where introduced with Win8