So, I was recently in a situation where I went to tutor my older Vietnamese friend in English, but instead he brought an old laptop and asked for computer help, which we spent all our time on instead. He said he hadn't used his laptop for years, and had been relying on his phone. He wanted to dust it off and use it, and wanted to know if I could get YouTube working for him.
I looked at his computer, and he's running Windows 8. With Firefox 29, Internet Explorer, and some old version of Chrome. None of which were able to render modern YouTube. The laptop only has 4GB of RAM. So, I downloaded the 32-bit version of Pale Moon onto his computer, and sure enough YouTube worked fine on it. I pretty much told him to just use Pale Moon from now on.
It was a really interesting experience. I was probably the only person that could have helped him, because I was one of the few people that actually used Windows 8 extensively rather than sticking to Windows 7, so I was able to setup a lot of things he needed that are done differently on that OS than on either Windows 7 or Windows 10. And probably only a handful of people know there is a browser that still supports Windows 8 and runs tolerably in 4GB of RAM.
I wonder if this is a bit like how the people who used to recruit Firefox users felt back in the day? Anyway, just wanted to share the experience, and let people know that I still think about Pale Moon a lot.
I looked at his computer, and he's running Windows 8. With Firefox 29, Internet Explorer, and some old version of Chrome. None of which were able to render modern YouTube. The laptop only has 4GB of RAM. So, I downloaded the 32-bit version of Pale Moon onto his computer, and sure enough YouTube worked fine on it. I pretty much told him to just use Pale Moon from now on.
It was a really interesting experience. I was probably the only person that could have helped him, because I was one of the few people that actually used Windows 8 extensively rather than sticking to Windows 7, so I was able to setup a lot of things he needed that are done differently on that OS than on either Windows 7 or Windows 10. And probably only a handful of people know there is a browser that still supports Windows 8 and runs tolerably in 4GB of RAM.
I wonder if this is a bit like how the people who used to recruit Firefox users felt back in the day? Anyway, just wanted to share the experience, and let people know that I still think about Pale Moon a lot.