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Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-not-you-it's-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced it is extending Chrome support for Windows XP until April 2016. The company will also end Chrome support for Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion at the same time. This means Google will provide regular Chrome updates and security patches for users on these operating systems for five more months. After that, the browser will still work, but it will be stuck on the last version released in April.

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  1. Chromium will still be supported though.... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you can simply switch to chromium now and not worry about it.

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  2. Re:Yet Another Good Reason by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want a chrome rendering engine for an android app, why not use WebView? It's included in Android so you don't need to distribute it.

  3. Re:Vista users need to switch to IE for final year by DogDude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does market share have to do with whether or not one uses an OS?

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  4. Re:Vista users need to switch to IE for final year by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It means that you can't expect support for forever if you're using one of the minority Windows versions. Just upgrade already.