[Dr. Sivana]

There is simply no excuse for Internet Explorer being used anywhere but in a museum of Early Internet Curiosities.

I would like a true alternative on the Windows OS side besides Google Chrome based browsers. Firefox went down the rabbit hole a long time ago, and Safari abandoned the platform altogether. Everyone else (Opera, Brave) has taken Google's offering.

[upchuck]

Everyone else (Opera, Brave) has taken Google's offering.

I've used Brave to good effect.

[daniel1212]

Waterfox and Basilisk, or as a second browser (less secure) Firefox ESR 59.2 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/59.0/win64/en-US/ offers the more functionality with extensions

But disconnect from the Internet before you first once you run it quickly go to Options>advanced>update (about:preferences#advanced) and choose Never update, then connect.