>>Except that my browser is getting new versions.
Let me guess- Internet Buggy Whip for Windows 8? ;-)
The PC is in sunset mode, similar to the waning days of Silicon Graphics when SGI gurus remained condescending towards the crappy PC. Browser selection methodology for today's university student/tomorrow's business decisionmaker: choose whether you want an Apple or a Samsung device, then use whatever browser comes with it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1