welcome back to the adventure today we're talking about what web browser is best for
Windows XP in 2020 there are many browsers to choose from some are very old others are
new and some I've never heard of before researching this video so how do we know what browser
is best well most actively updated and maintained websites are secure saying the website is
secure commonly refers to the use of SSL secure socket layer and that the traffic is encrypted
if we want to access secure web sites the browser will need to support at least TLS
1.2 TLS stands for transport layer security which is a protocol designed to facilitate
privacy and data security for communications over the Internet a primary use case for TLS
is encrypting the communication between web applications and servers such as web browsers
loading a web site
the second criteria is how well the browser can render a web page modern websites use
html5 and css3 so we will want to test each browser to see how well that supports those
two standards last but not least we will want to test the browser's security some browsers
receipt security updates longer than others and we want the safest possible option for
our retro pcs starting with TOS 1.2 support we can cross some of the browser's off our
list namely Internet Explorer Safari sea monkey Netscape Navigator and opera now we can organize
the remaining browsers into groups based on the engine they use let's change the desktop
to make this easier to see the groups are chromium which is developed by Google then
we have gecko developed by Mozilla followed by WebKit developed by Apple and last but
not least well maybe it depends on how you look at it we have tried it which is developed
by Microsoft these groupings have some gray area like loon escape for example uses more
than one engine this presentation is for simplicity explaining browser engines is an entirely
different video what can be taken away from this is that some engines supported XP longer
than others for example Mozilla supported XP the longest so what can we expect the browsers
that use the gecko engine or forked from may score higher in the tests we are about to
do to get started with the tests we can open one of the many browser options available
and in the address bar type in html5 test com when the page loads the banner at the
top will give us a score out of the possible 555 points below the banner we have a very
long list of test results and how the browser performed
record the results if you want to and on to the next browser
rinse and repeat
here is a breakdown of how all the browser's scored based on the results of this test we
can eliminate loon escape avant cutey web and green browser as they scored the lowest
and we want a browser that can render most webpages normally on to the security testing
open a browser and in the address bar enter browser audit com this test takes significantly
longer than the html5 test so some patience is required for this step
when the test finishes record the results and move on to the next browser
here is a breakdown of how well the remaining browsers performed on the security test there
are a few things I found interesting my pal scored lower than Firefox in the HTML test
and higher in the audit my pal is a fork of pale moon which is itself a fork of Firefox
one of the ways pale moon diverged from Firefox is by replacing the gecko browser engine with
DeWanna which is a fork of gecko another point of interest is that the UC browser which uses
the chromium engine scored highest out of all the browsers on the HTML test and lower
than Google Chrome on the audit at this point we can eliminate the light browser and chameleon
because they scored low on the html5 test and didn't have particularly high scores on
the audit also nothing makes these two browsers worth using over the other ones we are testing
an additional test we can do is called the acid browser test this test checks of web
browsers compliance with elements of various web standards like JavaScript to perform this
test open a browser and type in acid tests org in the address bar from this page select
the acid3 test when the test completes you should have a screen that looks like the reference
rendering viewable by clicking the link at the bottom of the page I found several browsers
fail this test in different ways Maxthon here shows the message you should not see this
at all in the upper left corner let's try another browser how about my pal
the third Square from the left should be yellow and the 99 out of 100 doesn't seem right I
think this one failed too here's a breakdown of the results for the acid test so what does
all this mean what is the best browser for Windows XP by the numbers you see browser
performed the best however support for XP has been discontinued so the browser may not
be safe to use long term the only browser from our list that is actively maintained
is my pal making it the best option for Windows XP my pal is an open source and community
supported browser the current version of the time of this recording is twenty eight point
eight point one which was released late January 2020 as mentioned previously development for
my pal was forked from pale moon which is itself a fork of Firefox pale moon version
26.5 and Firefox version 52 es are were the final official releases to support Windows
XP one more point to consider is support for extensions unfortunately that wasn't covered
in any of the tests we did my pal is based on firefighters meaning that it supports roughly
the same extensions as Firefox with some exceptions there may be critical extensions you rely
on they will only work on chromium browsers none of the remaining browsers are bad options
so by all means stick with whatever browser suits your needs best following the outro
will be some additional footage from the browser tests all of the test results will be down
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