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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. Vista users need to switch to IE for final year by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. Re:Good! by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.