the current and prior major release of Chrome...
Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
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Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#12You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.
Count yourself lucky. Amongst our enterprise-level customers, IE6 (yes, 6, you read that right) is still the majority of page hits.
Enterprises like to centralize everything then they get trapped into the trap that they set for themselves. Nature and people are decentralized, technology should be the same. Imagine if there was only one tree responsible for the oxygen on Earth. Let people manage their own desktop environments already!
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#13the current and prior major release of Chrome... Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
For Chrome, Google is basically saying "we push updates, you better take them or you can use some other browser".
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#14the current and prior major release of Chrome... Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
For Chrome, Google is basically saying "we push updates, you better take them or you can use some other browser".
I had ranted about Chromebooks not being a good deal pricewise (which I still claim). But a friend of mine, who heads IT for a large enterprise, noted the issue wasn't up-front acquisition cost. But that Google seems to want to run IT in the cloud and locally. He wasn't willing to take updates to browsers on Google's schedule unless Google was willing to own making all of their LoB apps work too.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#15Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems. Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;) Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..
Didn't the Google team also make Chrome now usable/installable without Admin rights?
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#16the current and prior major release of Chrome... Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
Which isn't that big of a deal. Take a look at Chrome's upgrade curves, compared to the other browsers:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/08/the-modern-browser-wars-...
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#17Interesting. These aren't really what most people would consider older browsers. It looks like two years is their support cutoff, based on when FF 3.5 came out.
The linked article says that it is the two last major releases.
Why that does not mean FF 4 and 3, I don't get.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#18Interesting. These aren't really what most people would consider older browsers. It looks like two years is their support cutoff, based on when FF 3.5 came out.
The linked article says that it is the two last major releases. Why that does not mean FF 4 and 3, I don't get.
3.6 is considered a major release.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#19Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems. Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;) Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..
My complaint exactly. I use Opera almost exclusively and it deserves a much larger market share than it has...
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Count yourself lucky. Amongst our enterprise-level customers, IE6 (yes, 6, you read that right) is still the majority of page hits.
Hopefully moves like this from big names like Google will help convince these enterprise companies to make the switch. Wait, who am I kidding, that's just wishful thinking.
Indeed, many enterprises such as the one I work for do not care about Google apps etc.. not working since they usually cater their browser versions towards in-house software development.