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Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the hey-3.5-isn't-that-old dept.

AmiMoJo writes "Google announced on its blog that it is dropping support for Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari 3 from the 1st of August. In these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely."

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  1. Praise Xena by jimmerz28 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wish more sites would do this, I'm so sick of having to help my parents cause their work websites only work with "Internet Explorer 5.5+"

  2. Re:Should just drop support for IE entirely by CaptainPatent · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, while I'm no Microsoft fanboy, IE 9 got a lot of things right. Especially when dealing with speed and security.

    I still don't think it's quite as good as the recent versions of Chrome and Firefox, but I think some credit is due to Microsoft on that front.

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  3. Poor summary by DocJohn · · Score: 4, Informative

    As usual, the summary leaves out an important modifier -- this only applies to Google APPS, not Google.

    From TFA:

    For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version is released, we’ll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.

    Google will still support all older browsers on its search engine. It wouldn't make sense to discriminate there.

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  4. Re:Do they care only about toys? by Eponymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    A couple of things:

    * Not supported isn't the same thing as doesn't work
    * Don't use Google if it is costing you significant time and money to do so

    Firefox 3.5 is almost 2 years old now and is no longer supported by Mozilla. If you are using it, it's time to step up to at least 3.6.