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YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-you-strike-me-down dept.

Joel writes "Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website: 'Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won't work in older browsers.'"

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  1. Important Clarification: by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    It should be noted that Google is not breaking youtube for IE6 users(the poor bastards). Doing so would be pretty stupid, especially since most of the heavy lifting goes on inside the flash blob, and people slacking at work are probably a decent sized audience.

    They are just declaring their intention to no longer subject new features to the "can it be made to work with IE6?" test.

  2. Google IS dumping older versions of FF by argent · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA

    Google IS dumping older versions of Firefox as well.

  3. Re:Finally by Hadlock · · Score: 3, Informative

    Finally, but in replacement, Youtube is likely upgrading to their new "beta" interface they've been testing for quite some time, which has (IMO) really poor functionality, and looks like the Hulu.com's interface designer's scrappy younger brother designed (which is totally unusable, btw). No wonder they're dropping IE6 support; the new interface is such shit IE6 probably can't handle it.

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