Google To Force Basic HTML Gmail On Older Chrome Versions (computerworld.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday February 3, 2017 @10:00AM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Earlier this week, Google quietly announced that Gmail will only be partially supported on older versions of Chrome browser soon. From a report: Users of Chrome version 53 and older editions of the browser could start being redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as December, the company said in a blog post. Starting next week, users who will be affected by the change will start seeing a banner at the top of Gmail telling them to upgrade to an up-to-date version of Google's browser. The affected browser versions include Chrome v49, the last version of the software that supports XP and Vista. While Microsoft officially ended support for XP more than two and a half years ago, Gmail has continued to work with it. Vista Service Pack 2 will reach the end of its extended support period on April 11.

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Re:So use by Anonymous Coward · 2017-02-03 10:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Gogle is still way back in the 1990's in terms of Gmail's features. You can't even set an automatic reply address. Eudora could do that in the early 1990's or maybe even in the 1980's.
And now they want to only work in the latest Chrome. You could cut the irony with an automatic reply address. If you could, you know, actually use an automatic reply address.