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Topic: Is it possible to use old versions of Opera and be safe?

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #116,466

Now that Opera is basically Chrome. Could old versions of Opera be used safely? Since they get no updates.

I really miss old Opera.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,286,018

The Three Tenors use it.

boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,033

maybe look at the Portable Apps site for browsers to kick the tires of

dw !p9hU6ckyqw joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 34 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,035

No

tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 6 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,036

Not really. It's never going to be safe to use an outdated, unsupported and unmaintained browser.

You can find it on OldVersion.com but FFS don't make an outdated piece of shit your main browser.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 18 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,037

Use a VM. Setup the preference you want in the browser. Power off the VM and backup the virtual disk.

Power on and browse as you wish. But then restore the virtual disk from backup each time you power the VM down. So if you get infected with anything it won't persist longer than one session. Obviously don't do anything sensitive in the VM.

I think Qemu has a way to track changes so you don't have to overwrite multiple GBs of data each time you restore the backup. I think you can just delete the modifications that are stored separately from the source drive. I don't remember for sure, but I vaguely remember something like that. qcow2? something or another.

I think the biggest practical problem may be sites won't work that well unless you're just on simple sites like imageboards, or wikipedia. Web standards are bloating needlessly fast these days.

Anonymous F double-posted this 1 year ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,038

Also be mindful about leaking stuff through the clipboard from your main OS if you're super paranoid.

Anonymous F triple-posted this 1 year ago, 11 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,039

https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot#Temporary_snapshots

Yeah, so you can just run it from a known good virtual disk and each time you reboot the VM it will discard any changes you've made.

(Edited 3 minutes later.)

Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 18 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,286,129

Safari ftw
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