Well Microsoft Edge is just a chrome based now.
There are alot of privacy based browsers using Chrome Open-source code as a base.
The problem comes from evolution of software/OSes etc..
Sure things like Linux often give new life to old hardware and can often revive an old device to be able to use modern programs
Discorkie is still pretty new and ATM I believe no IOS app as of yet. The Android App is still in initial beta. It is promising if your looking for something that looks like it can be supported on older tech. It doesn’t load Js, hmtl. Iirc it pulls from JSON? And makes for a discord like feel adding discourse sites in a way akin to discord’s server channels. Discorkie Introduction Topic
It still early days like at present YouTube links don’t seem to populate.
Sure it might be nice to step back to Netscape or even Internet Explorer. Eventually everything gets replaced with newer things and direction.
There are quite a few old programs I miss. Even though with Linux/wine & dosbox can still likely spin them up.