Ok, I appreciate your confession and honesty, hence the like.
Look, I get it, you have old hardware and a low end graphics card and there can be personal reasons for that, such as financial situation, which I won't pry into. I'm not having a go at you for that.
But seriously, I don't get why you won't upgrade your operating system and Firefox and any other old software you've got there. Times change, so the software has to change to keep up and especially for security updates. Just try using Windows XP now, for example. At one time, it was
THE operating system to have, now it's a basket case due to lack of support.
Yes, I see from the hardware file that you have 14GB installed. You should definitely be running 64-bit Windows 10 build 21H1 nowadays the whole time and not switch between the two, unless you have a
very special use case, which seems unlikely. Do you? Perhaps if you used W10 64-bit you'd be ok with upgrading the apps, too?
Check out my hardware specs. I'm still rocking a decade old 2700K and the thing works fine, still flies on the desktop. The only thing I really notice, is that it can't reach the highest frame rates on modern games, like 144Hz, although it's still not bad and very playable. I'll hopefully finally upgrade it when Alder Lake comes out and perhaps to the latest Zen CPU. Dunno yet.