Web browsers and their developers really shouldn’t be the sole parties pushing the OS or Web standards boat along, though.
Also, web sites ought to strive for maximum compatibility in general. There is only rarely an actual impediment to accessing/receiving the contents as opposed to being unable to properly render the latest style/design/aesthetic changes.
Plus there been far too much application of Facebook’s classic “move fast and break things” approach in the last decade or so.
While security issues are a thing, they are rarely simple, across the board hazards. The real reason to quit XP was that Microsoft dropped support, not that XP was some vast hazard zone.
With regard to Firefox, 52.x is around the time they ditched the original add-on architecture and went even wilder with the per update changes. Browser diversity and customizability has really takeb a hit in recent years or so it seems.
Just saying there are sometimes perfectly good reasons to bot be using the “latest and greatest”.
Windows XP was remarkably stable and used incredibly little in the way of hardware resources by any modern standard… From Windows Vista on, not having at least 4 GB ram became almost untenable. Frankly Win10 seems to soak up atound 2-3+ GB of ram by the time it’s done loading up…
Mozilla Firefox used to be the browser for power users and anyone else who wanted both control over the experience and real usability improvements. Now it’s just another good browser with some crazy ideologues in the lead…