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Google Tells Users To Drop IE6

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-mom-still-won't-do-it dept.

Kelly writes "Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome. Google recently removed Firefox from the Google Pack bundle, replaced it with Chrome, then added a direct download link for Chrome on Google and YouTube. Google's decision to list IE6 as an unsupported Gmail browser does not affect just consumers: Tens of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses that run Google Apps hosted services may dump IE6 as well. What's especially interesting is the fact that Mozilla is picking up two out of three browser users that Microsoft surrenders."

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  1. Wait, There Are People Still Using Firefox? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.google.com/chrome

  2. Re:Wait, There Are People Still Using Firefox? LOL by Anthony_Cargile · · Score: 1, Troll

    That is something that still bothers me about all of this - FF is cross-platform, yet Chrome, Google's new brainchild, is Win-only. "Upgrade! Upgrade!" they cry, but us Linux, Mac, and misc. *nix users are still left in the complete dust! I hope Google releases at least a binary pretty soon, else its going to turn into a FF vs. Chrome battle, the new epic flame war, no doubt with a Google-fund-less Mozilla Foundation struggling to compete!

  3. FF Codebase Is A Stinking Pile Of Garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All the funding in the world can't fix the absolute train wreck Firefox codebase.

    After finally going through the stinking pile of shit firsthand it became obvious why the Firefox devs in forums like Slashdot would flame anyone and everyone who dared complain about the massive memory leaks and other problems the basketcase of a browser suffers from. The codebase is such a mess that it will never be fixed without a completely from scratch rewrite. And why it took years to finally get just the major memory leaks somewhat under control.

    When IE was a total security disaster it was a good temporary alternative. Now that IE has finally gotten its security problems up to a reasonable standard and better alternatives like Chrome out now, hopefully Firefox will just go away and die.

  4. "You shouldn't read gmail from work ..." by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slavery's been abolished, supposedly.

    I swear I hate those fascist apologist, your employer is NOT your owner.