User blog comment:Kirkburn/Browsers - your window on Wikia/@comment-366087-20130301065441/@comment-10688548-20130301122808

Your operating system is a decade old, your browser is four years old. Both are severely out-of-date, and to support your situation would require outdated code and at the same time inhibit the use of great, useful new code that's become mainstream since then. HTML5, CSS3, you won't get good support of those with your setup. I don't think people should have to inhibit their websites to satisfy your minority.

And your experiences with security are the outlier. Kaspersky, Norton, McAfee, anyone will tell you that a recent browser of any brand (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9) is bounds more secure than IE8. I personally am a user of the most recent version of Firefox and I love it very much.