SSL error?

I mean, what’s wrong with Firefox? Personally, I think it beats Chrome any day. If you're really struggling with it, maybe give Opera a shot instead...

rowdybadger18 said:It looks like Chrome is finally pulling the plug on Windows XP too. What a shame. I assume there’s no way to get anything else running besides Firefox now?

Check out the Maxthon browser. It's lightweight and snappy... just threw it on an old rig recently and it runs flawlessly.🙂
http://www.maxthon.com/

The client is insisting on Chrome, and honestly, I can't argue with how good their sync feature is. Are you telling me there's absolutely no way for Chrome to swallow those certificates on Windows XP? Not even Internet Explorer or Chrome?

rowdybadger18 said:The client is insisting on Chrome, and honestly, I can't argue with how good their sync feature is. Are you telling me there's absolutely no way for Chrome to swallow those certificates on Windows XP? Not even Internet Explorer or Chrome?

Fine, tell the client to switch to an OS that actually gets updates, instead of clinging to a 15-year-old system where nothing works anymore.🕺

Honestly, it supports everything you actually need, especially if you aren't out there messing around with niche stuff.

rowdybadger18 said:Honestly, it supports everything you actually need, especially if you aren't out there messing around with niche stuff.

There’s no official Microsoft support, which means the OS isn't secure anymore. To me, that makes it useless. Period.

As for why people are stubborn enough to keep running headfirst into a brick wall? That's a different story.🥱

There’s nothing left to be done here, much to the client's disappointment. People tend to underestimate what an OS reaching its end-of-life actually means; they think they can just coast along. Everyone is going to migrate away from Windows XP support relatively quickly. Why waste money paying developers to maintain a dying system that fewer and fewer people are using anyway...

Office 2010, basically every browser, every music player, every video app... almost everything still runs on Windows XP.

EDIT - William Morris13, so you're saying there's no hope? That sucks. Guess I'll have to start learning how to use Firefox.

Office belongs to Microsoft, so it’ll probably hang on for a little while longer. From what I’ve seen, you can't just flip a switch on a browser and expect it to actually work... It's more subtle than that. We're talking about drivers or specific new libraries that simply won't exist for Windows XP. Just because a program launches doesn't mean it's running correctly. It opens because it's a PE file, and Windows is designed to run PE files or .exe files, regardless of how broken they might be.

Also, a quick edit: There's really no hope here. For the system to support those new certificates, Microsoft would have to release a patch, and we all know they aren't doing that for XP anymore. You're on your own, man.

Google officially confirms support for Windows XP. 😉

rowdybadger18 said:Google officially confirms support for Windows XP. 😉

yeah, good luck when it stops working 🕺

It’s safe to assume they'll eventually figure out a way to restore full functionality.

So, it runs on Windows XP too, right? The real kicker is Microsoft... since they aren't really supporting that OS anymore, Chrome’s ability to run smoothly basically depends on whatever moves MS makes. You know what I mean? And honestly, you should probably assume they'll officially pull the plug on XP sooner rather than later. More and more sites are ditching RSA for ECDSA certificates... if every other website starts throwing errors at you like yours is doing, and they can't actually fix it, how long do you think that support is actually going to last?

I only ran into this issue at one single station. But I can always find a workaround, like switching to Firefox, right?

It’s not like they’re actually planning on rebuilding their browser from scratch. It’s much easier to just drop support for an OS that its own creator basically walked away from. At the end of the day, Microsoft is a business, and they care about the bottom line. They force people toward their newer systems and services... if you can't make the jump, you're stuck buying new hardware, which just feeds the profit margins of other big tech companies. It's a chain reaction. Nobody is going to fight the entire industry—or their own quarterly earnings—just to keep Windows XP alive.
It happened, it's over. Technology moves forward, and in a few years, you'll be looking for a way to run every system you ever worked on. Nothing new there. That's just how the gears turn...

William Morris13 said:It’s not like they’re actually planning on rebuilding their browser from scratch. It’s much easier to just drop support for an OS that its own creator basically walked away from. At the end of the day, Microsoft is a business, and they care about the bottom line. They force people toward their newer systems and services... if you can't make the jump, you're stuck buying new hardware, which just feeds the profit margins of other big tech companies. It's a chain reaction. Nobody is going to fight the entire industry—or their own quarterly earnings—just to keep Windows XP alive.
It happened, it's over. Technology moves forward, and in a few years, you'll be looking for a way to run every system you ever worked on. Nothing new there. That's just how the gears turn...

+1🙂

I actually agree with you for once. Though I wish it weren't such a depressing topic. Even after six or seven years without touching it, Windows XP remains the most intuitive OS I've ever used.

First time? Lucky you 😁
Besides, I can't exactly force you to start seeing things my way... though if you did, you'd probably find yourself being right more often.

Alright, that was just a rhetorical device. I'll shoot you a DM tomorrow once I actually find the motivation. 🤣

rowdybadger18 said:Honestly, every single site using SSL that I’ve stumbled upon works just fine. The only outlier is TPB. How do I deal with this self-signed certificate issue—basically, how do I bypass it? This PC isn't mine and I couldn't care less if bypassing this opens up some vulnerabilities for hackers; I just need TPB to work.

When the error pops up, click on "Details." You should see an option to Proceed anyway. They're using a self-signed certificate because they didn't buy a legitimate one.

No need to mess around with anything else. 👍