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Google Retiring Chrome Frame

Posted by samzenpus on from the dust-in-the-wind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it is retiring Chrome Frame, a plug-in that brings Chrome's engine to old IE versions. The company wouldn't share an exact date, but did say it will end support and cease releasing updates sometime in January 2014. Google's reasoning appears to be based on the fact that Chrome Frame was released (initially in September 2009 and then as a stable build in September 2010) at a time when old versions of Internet Explorer, which don't support the latest Web technologies, were still in very high use."

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  1. Re:However... by Ignacio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And this is Microsoft, where saying "it works" is often preferred to actually making it work.

  2. Re:IE still doesn't support modern web technologie by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not everyone gets to use their choice of browser.

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  3. Re:Die already! by mrbester · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not like they weren't warned. Standard support for XP ended in 2009, and Micosoft generously allowed *five fucking years* for extended support (and *seven* for XP embedded). Not going to allow a different browser after all this time? Don't care any more.

    The fact that the operating system is going to be obsolete RSN is of more concern. Planning for the replacement should have started years ago, and if some exploit is found that leaks all your data / takes down the network then that's just too bad. You're on your own. You won't get any sympathy from anyone.

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  4. Google is like George R R Martin by hobarrera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google is like George R R Martin:

    It completely impossible to know who'll die next, but you can always be sure someone's about to die really soon!