not all of them thankfully, just everything Blink-based (Chrome's engine) and pretty much also vanilla version of Firefox (you can turn off Pocket and other stuff but theres so much motherf**king stuff to turn off, I'm pretty sure I don't even know half of it) most Firefox forks come free of Mozilla's telemetry and can have security tightened up via addons, but a lot of sites like legal streaming, Google stuff and such will break, because among other things, they expect to run scrambled machine code on your computer. Chrome's and Firefox's engine will allow this silently and I'm not sure if Chrome will even let you turn it off. (Just in case you thought I'm talking about ActiveX or Flash no I'm talking about WASM...) In short good riddance to Chrome/Chromium. You might as well run Win 11 Home if you're running that snoop fest outside a VM
@Nykto : Yeah, the DRM stuff breaking is because of Widevine, more info in this quite lengthy post . I do not know for sure whether it's the streaming industry forcing this "no forks" policy or not, but in any case Google does not mind the current status quo.
Flash was a CPU resource HOG, many computers from flash's heyday struggled to run it or overheated running. The computing world is much better off with such a power / PC resource wasting thing as flash gone. I used to have an "in browser" flash weather radar and in the winter I used to let in run to warm up the room, to give you an example of how wasteful Flash was.
Here is a pic of my Firefox on LTSC, after tweaking the heck out of it, to suit me with a userChrome.css file.
I just tested Librewolf, a firefox fork and really liked what I see. No tons of settings like Chrome based browsers, fast, sleek and No Telemetry. Waterfox is another alternative with hardened security and No telemetry. Much better to use these alternatives than stock Firefox.
I strongly disagree with that. Flash had a single immense advantage over the current status. It was an optional component that could be enabled disabled and also enabled on demand, making the web browsing way lighter and safer than what we have today, at least for people skilled enough to use Opera or other good browsers over IE.
I've been a PC tech for over 30 yrs & I'm telling bud that flash was a CPU wasting, CPU taxing, PC stressing piece of s**te.
Yay!!!! Good news. With you being on Windows 8.1 maybe we can keep it alive with server 2012 R2 ESU updates till 2026. I hope you're not planning on abandoning it soon.
HipmanPro+Alert. But I keep it disabled unless I'm doing online banking or payments. It has special features for browser safety for online transactions. When I install a program, I always check for Virustotal reports. Alternative: Webroot Both cloud based AV. Much better than the local ones.
My very first experience with WinXP had McAfee AV lasted few months before i formated/reinstalled, didn't use any AV afterward Of course not, Windows 8.1 is the best Windows BypassESU is ready for it, as long as they don't block the updates themselves (like some for Server 2012/Embedded Standard 8.0)