Misc: Drop support for older browsers; update support comments

That includes IE<8, Opera 12.x, Firefox<29, Safari<6.0 and some hacks
for old Blackberry.

Fixes gh-1836
Fixes gh-1701
Refs gh-1815
Refs gh-1820
I restored the hook but the issue is present on `master` as well so I created PR #1901. Let's track the test & additional modifications there.