Google phases out IE6 support for Docs and Sites

 

Forces browser update.

Google has urged users to update their browsers to avoid losing access to new features in Google Docs and Google Sites.

The search giant said that new features to be introduced at the beginning of March will not be available to users running old browsers, and that some features may even stop working altogether. Google promised not to deny users access outright to the applications.

The latest editions of the most popular web browsers include Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8.0, Mozilla's Firefox 3.6, Google's Chrome 5.0 and Apple's Safari 4.0.

"Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0, as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers," said Google Apps senior product manager Rajen Sheth in the Google Docs blog.

Google released the latest version of Chrome last week for developers to test.

Google Docs is an office suite for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, while Google Sites allows users to build their own web sites from scratch.

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Google phases out IE6 support for Docs and Sites
"Why anyone would still be using IE6 astounds me. It's like a software manufacturer coming out and saying that they are no longer developing their product to run on Windows 98. Don't even try and ..."
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gonny
Feb 2, 2010 12:21 PM
Why anyone would still be using IE6 astounds me.

It's like a software manufacturer coming out and saying that they are no longer developing their product to run on Windows 98.

Don't even try and complain about this one :D

Whilst browsers are FREE and now come with this magical feature called TABS, and with ever increasing security measures built-in, for goodness sake, expend 20 mb and upgrade.
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