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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦 • Edited

People on older computers can download and install Mozilla or Chrome, and it's our responsibility as developers to make that process easy for them.

Here are the system requirements for FF62, a modern, module-loading, CSS-grid rendering, security-vulnerability-patching browser:

Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
512MB of RAM / 2GB of RAM for the 64-bit version
200MB of hard drive space

And here are the requirements for Chrome on Windows

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or later
An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable

Older browsers are unsupported and insecure. Supporting older browsers doesn't help users, it hurts them.