Browser Support • Re: Questions about security protocols and site access

I understand you have reasons for staying with 19.2, but eventually those reasons run head on with Reality where things just start having problems simply because they are no longer supported.

Off-topic: So far I managed to stay afloat, mainly because I do not require much from this old notebook, and there's also people that provide backports for versions even older than Mint 19. And some of the software that officially became incompatible I could build myself and update the old ones. When that will become impossible I'll probably stick to what I have until it won't work at all anymore, and then... I'll be too old to care.

Off-topic: I am old too. Just turned 76. So in some ways I am like you, but in other ways, I am not.

I totally get it you're using an old notebook. And there are people who provide backports for older unsupported distros like your (19.2). I also get you can build your own linux Pale Moon.

When I find things that no longer work in linux Pale Moon, I too will search around for a solution. And if I am lucky, I will find a solution. But here is where I take a different path than you.

If I find a solution that works, but after a few months the solution no longer works, I would have to find a newer second solution. Then if the second solution worked and then doesn't, this is where I take the easy way out if there is one.

As an example, the case with Pale Moon and the dreaded, pita "Cloudflare". To try and get around CF with a custom setting or an extension, which I know will not last since CF is constantly tinkering with their challenges, I just use my backup Waterfox browser for the "problem" website.

Basically, I do not like to create unnecessary aggravation and frustration for myself especially if their is an alternate solution and it is an easy way out.