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Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 50 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, adding the usual slew of developer features. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. As announced in November 2015, Chrome now no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, nor OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Chrome 50 allows sites to include notification data payloads with their push messages. This eliminates the final server check -- the initial version relied on service workers to proactively fetch the information for a notification from the server, leading to problems when there were multiple messages in flight or when the device was on a poor network connection. Push notification payloads must be encrypted. Sites can now detect when a notification is closed by the user, resulting in better analytics and allowing for cross-device notification dismissal. The look of notifications can now be customized with timestamps and icons. Chrome 50 also brings support for declarative preload.

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  1. XP I understand by clonehappy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No one should still be running XP unless it's on a specialized system, and those shouldn't be used for general web browsing anyway.

    But OS X 10.8? That came out in 2012, not 2001. Even 10.7 is still fairly modern. 10.6/Snow Leopard is getting long in the tooth, so that might make sense to drop support, but this will just make people using the older Macs run out of date browsers or find another product.

    1. Re:XP I understand by Tax+Boy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But OS X 10.8? That came out in 2012, not 2001. Even 10.7 is still fairly modern. 10.6/Snow Leopard is getting long in the tooth, so that might make sense to drop support, but this will just make people using the older Macs run out of date browsers or find another product.

      Every version of OS X since mavericks in 2013 has been free and runs on pretty much any mac built after 2007. So really folks, get with the program and update.

    2. Re:XP I understand by ledow · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's more to do with development.

      You can't legally VM Mac OS. It just doesn't have compatible licensing.

      So to make apps for these old versions, you REQUIRE specific versions to test with, which means a physical machine each, which means lots of Macs just to test and each has to be managed, updated and imaged separately.

      And, no, you can't just use the latest XCode to compile and expect it to work on older MacOS, and nor can you use the latest XCode on an old MacOS, etc. And, pretty much, if you're targeting MacOS, you need XCode and utilities at some stage.

      I never got why people like development on Mac.