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Interesting. 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.
Sad 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?
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Didn't the Google team also make Chrome now usable/installable without Admin rights?
That was Chrome Frame, the Internet Explorer plugin that enables chrome rendering in IE.
Narrowing their list of modern browsers so tightly is a little worrying though, any standards supporting browser (opera?) should be considered, otherwise they could be enforcing a cartel of current browsers.
Interesting. 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.
Sad 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...
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My complaint exactly. I use Opera almost exclusively and it deserves a much larger market share than it has...
I was using Opera extensively for the past year - then recently it started nagging me to turn on Turbo (which allows Opera to track your traffic), so when I switched systems I didn't install it on the new one - just FireFox and IE9. Although there are features of Opera I miss, I like the various privacy plugins available on Firefox a hell of a lot more than what passes for an equivalent on Opera. Although there a lot…
You 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.
It's not that corps are scared of upgrading, it's just not worthwhile from a cost-benefit standpoint to download and install IE 8 on every single machine on every reinstall. Their users that want IE 8 or Firefox will go get it; the users that don't know what a browser version is never know that they're missing anything. IE 6 will only go away when Windows XP does.
FWIW, I intentionally keep IE 6 on my work machine (not a big corp, but we sell to them) for testing, and use Opera for real browsing.
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That was Chrome Frame, the Internet Explorer plugin that enables chrome rendering in IE.
Chrome itself can be installed without admin rights, I remember using that on a University pc to view a flash video with the embedded plugin.
Dropping support for older browsers shows why Google Apps will continue to struggle against Microsoft products for government contracts such as was the case recently in San Francisco. Large organizations get locked into legacy OS's for many reasons - example government agencies who bought and rely on geospatial data in Autodesk Mapguide format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servle…