Chrome no longer supporting Vista - alternative?

[ivrytwr3]

I see Chrome is no longer supporting Vista from Apr 16.

Questions:

a. Best alternative to use?

b. I have loads of shortcuts/tabs etc set up on my Chrome - is there an easy way to import my settings into a new browser?!

Ta!!

 

[TheVoice]

Is an upgrade to a modern OS out of the question?

 

[ivrytwr3]

lol - it's a family pc. Loads of stuff installed really don't want to start from scratch again.

 

[Caged]

Is an upgrade to a modern OS out of the question?

 

[ivrytwr3]

my concern is i will lose all my settings, progs, files etc doing an upgrade - is this the case?

 

[Orcvader]

Firefox. It will ask if you want to import from Chrome as soon as you install it.

 

[skaif]

my concern is i will lose all my settings, progs, files etc doing an upgrade - is this the case?

Not if you install from within the OS as far as I am aware. If you go the upgrade path, it makes a folder with all your old stuff in so you don't lose anything.

If you do fresh install then yeah, you'll lose stuff!

 

[ivrytwr3]

Firefox. It will ask if you want to import from Chrome as soon as you install it.

ta!

Not if you install from within the OS as far as I am aware. If you go the upgrade path, it makes a folder with all your old stuff in so you don't lose anything.

If you do fresh install then yeah, you'll lose stuff!

That's interesting as that is my reason for not doing an upgrade - fear of losing all my stuff and settings and also borking my pc.

 

[Finners]

You really should have a back up of all your stuff anyway, hard drive could go anytime.

Settings are usually pretty minimal, not saying a new OS won't be different but don't normally have to change to much.

 

[Cromulent]

You really should have a back up of all your stuff anyway, hard drive could go anytime.

Settings are usually pretty minimal, not saying a new OS won't be different but don't normally have to change to much.

Yeah I agree with this. Backup your stuff just in case your hard drive fails.

I generally find that getting back to a working system after a clean install generally only takes 3 - 4 hours of work which is obviously a pain but you'll get a much cleaner system because of it.

 

[Gazb]

Firefox. It will ask if you want to import from Chrome as soon as you install it.

^ This.

Assuming your Vista install in 64-bit, then grab yourself the 64-bit Firefox beta as it seems to work really well and personally has performed better for me than then normal 32-bit client.

On a side note if the Vista install isn't 64-bit then an inplace upgrade to a newer OS won't be possible. You'd have to format and install fresh.

 

[Orcvader]

^ This.

Assuming your Vista install in 64-bit, then grab yourself the 64-bit Firefox beta as it seems to work really well and personally has performed better for me than then normal 32-bit client.

On a side note if the Vista install isn't 64-bit then an inplace upgrade to a newer OS won't be possible. You'd have to format and install fresh.

64-bit is stable : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

 

[Dinkas]

I tried installing Firefox 64bit on a Vista notebook last week. Got an error message saying it only supports Windows 7 and up. Had to settle on the 32 bit version :s

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0.4/system-requirements/

Please note that 64-bit builds of Firefox are only supported on Windows 7 and higher.

 

[s452]

why not use something like macrium reflect to clone the HDD first, then upgrade it to a newer OS?
you should be able to swap the original HDD with the Cloned one and not notice any difference, this way if somehow the new OS isn't family friendly, you can just swap it out, and only loose what you did on it since cloning