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Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com)
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.
This will leave Windows Vista users without security fixes for Google Chrome, while security fixes for Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Vista continue until April 11, 2017, according to Microsoft's life cycle fact sheet.
Google's learning that supporting multiple OS versions costs money. I wonder what the Android team thinks.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I feel a great disturbance in the force as if millions of voices suddenly shrugged and switched to Mozilla.
1) Drop PDF, JPEG, GIF, WEBP, leaving only PNG.
Which would bloat download sizes by a factor of ten compared to lossily compressed textures where appropriate. Or are you recommending that developers implement texture decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop WebM/MP4 containers, and all video codecs except for hardware supported h.265/h.264 + AAC/FLAC.
Which would require each web developer to purchase a license from MPEG-LA in order to encode background music and cut scenes. Or are you recommending that developers implement royalty-free video codec decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop the development console.
Then how would a programmer at a game studio go about debugging her work?
Why? XP has around 8 times as many users as Vista.
One-eighth the users left in the lurch is still greater than zero users left in the lurch.
They're already on Vista. They're use to misery by now.
Misery was RTM. Mojave was Service Pack 1 and it fixed a lot of problems. Windows Vista is on Service Pack 2 now.
So you can simply switch to chromium now and not worry about it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
I just run Classic Theme Restorer and use the built in Customize function to hide their wacky new features when then introduce them and force them onto the Navigation Bar.
Maybe thats less than ideal but the browser seems to behave OK, and I get all of my nice Adblocking/privacy add-ons without using a browser coded by a literal advertising company.
2: Pirate W7-W10. Well, good luck with that, since every single activation hack brings along with it additional software... stuff you really don't want on your computer. W8, this is impossible, due to PCs shipping with Secure Boot, and W10, Secure Boot isn't able to be turned off, nor BIOS based booting allowed.
Windows 7: Use Daz Loader to provide SLP activation of Home Premium-Professional-Ultimate. Boot loader based, but you will never notice it. I installed it when Win7 went RTM, and it still works, and genuine checks pass, AV software never picks it up.
Windows 8.1: Use CODYQX4's Microsoft Toolkit to provide KMS activation. Biggest issue is adding to AV exemptions. I don't know why AV software feels they need to be copyright police.
Windows 10: Install Windows 7 using Daz, then do free upgrade for permanent activation. If not Microsoft Toolkit may work for KMS activation.
MyDigitalLife is the community from which these two products were developed, and as trusted as you can get. It is also a good source to try and find unmodified ISO images of these operating systems, onto which you can use the activation tools.
It's not a clone and what is so shitty about Firefox?