5 February 2010

Google to Drop Support for Internet Explorer 6

Posted by Connor under: Internet; Technology .

Last week Google announced that it will no longer support older browsers. Specifically, this means that Internet Explorer Version 6 will no longer be supported by Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of the Google suite.

This isn’t really that much of a shock. Microsoft itself has been pushing its users to dump IE6 for more than a year. Not just because the shiny new IE7 and then IE8 came out. But because IE6 is a security nightmare and they don’t want to expend the resources any longer. Also, newer technologies like advanced JavaScript and the new HTML5 extensions will not be supported by IE6 ever.

Google is pushing its Chrome browser. I use it every day and like some of the features, but for my money, Firefox, even with its large memory footprint is still the best browser out there. Explorer is a distant third.

If you sill use IE6, notable by its plain blue logo, then you should, at a minimum upgrade to IE8. But really, you should just get Firefox or Chrome
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