On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 11:03:21 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:17:49 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 1:51:32 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 08:40:29 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

it's that XP is obsolete and over

Only if your needs change significantly.

If by "needs", you mean being able to access many of the common websites
that many people visit today, as opposed to what was in existence 15 years
ago, then the typical desktop user's needs have changed. He did say
desktop as opposed to dedicated PC that he uses to run a couple pieces
of particular software. Also, whatever he's doing, he obviously wants
more performance, that's a change in needs that suggests whatever he's
doing, it isn't doing it well enough today. And like I said before,
IDK of any browser supplier that still supports XP. It seems very odd
to me to be spending money on a new CPU, memory, HD, etc to upgrade an XP
system that you're going to use as a typical desktop PC at this point,
with the lack of a supported browser being a big point.


The thing I notice having Flash turned off and running an old browser
is I see far fewer ads.

The thing I've seen is that more and more websites either won't work
at all, work but then have a problem at some point or just don't work
well with an old browser. You can use Ad Block or similar to block ads.

I have a lot more trouble with ad blockers on web sites than I do
because Firefox won't open them. In fact I have not had that problem
at all.

Experience will of course vary depending on what browser you're using.
I use Chrome mostly, with Pale Moon on the spare XP notebook. And with
whatever version of Chrome still worked on XP, I was starting to see
websites where it would not work. My main
point here is that whatever you're using, IDK of any browser that is
still being updated on XP and as we move forward, it seems odd to be
upgrading a system with the intention of running XP as a general purpose,
typical desktop going forward. It's not going to get more compatible,
only less so.