Google ends support for some old browsers
February 12, 2010 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Security
If you needed another reason to ditch Internet Explorer 6, here’s one:
Google has announced the end of support for several old Web browsers out there. IE6 is one of them, along with AMozilla’s Firefox 2.0, Apple’s Safari 2.0 and Google’s own Chrome 3.0.
The likely reason: recent hacks that have targeted some of Google’s popular services.
The move by Google comes after other service and site providers have asked users and businesses to get rid of the nearly nine-year-old IE6.
Even Microsoft itself has been urging users to make the switch.
DocuCrunch.com delivers the latest IT and Imaging news once a week to the inboxes of over 200,000 IT and Imaging professionals.
Click here to sign up and start your FREE subscription to DocuCrunch!
Tags: browsers, Google, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Loading ...
February 17th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
(Coming to you from Firefox 3.x)
If IE7 and IE8 WORKED correctly, that would be a legitimate requirement.
IE7 and especially IE8 significantly changed Internet Explorer functionality, and “broke” a bunch of business applications that have to be slowly and painfully updated and tested.
I know of several applications that just now support IE7 and have no plans to support IE8.
Fortunately, most of those work with Firefox (due to Netscape compatibility), so the work-around is to install Firefox
One the one hand, it’s easy to say: “We’re not going to support that old, buggy crap any longer”, but on the other hand, you can’t feasibly say that when no one else supports the updated versions.