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Google Chrome Has Dropped Support for Windows XP, Vista, and Mac

johnhaller.com

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Headline got trimmed so missing key info: "Google Chrome has dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.8"

Seems a little aggressive and user-hostile.

I really don't understand why they are doing this. I have a rather old Mac Mini I wanted to give to my mom, and it would be perfectly suitable for her uses. But as of about a year ago, Chrome stopped supporting it because the hardware is too old.

I get that it is more work to support old hardware and operating systems, and I think it would be forgivable if it was a small shop and software that has limited number of users. But this is Chrome, and Google. What exactly is their reasoning in being so aggressive?

Perhaps you should take that up with Apple who unsupported OS X 10.8 over 6 months ago - last September.

I'm working really hard to not be snarky here. I would suggest that you may want to reassess which companies are being aggressive in ending support and why.

I don't agree with that either, but the Chrome issue is the one that prevents me from making better use of that Mac.

You can't expect a company to support an os that the os developer is not. I guess you are using an old version of os so use the old version of chrome.

*Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.8

Can we please fix the title? Seems pretty misleading

Misleading title is misleading. Just dropping OS X 10.6 - 10.8

Nice click bait by not putting version number. Surprised didnt just say Chrome Dropped Support for Windows and Mac.

at least some minor restraint was exercised

Can you also remove the "most visited site thumbnails" each time I open a new tab ? or at least give an option to disable that? because you removed this option. I know there are Chrome developers lurking here, frankly what does it cost them to re-enable an option to remove these ?

can you not set google as your new tab page?

Nope, you can't AFAIK, there is a very long thread on this issue on Google Q&A site. And the typical answer to that is "why would you want to do that?". "Well because you could before".

There are multiple extensions that let you set your new tab screen to a blank page, or just a list of apps, or whatever you want.

> There are multiple extensions that let you set your new tab screen to a blank page, or just a list of apps, or whatever you want.

You didn't need them before. Most extensions I found were hacks that stopped working after a Chrome update. See nobody answered my question, why was the option removed at first place.

That behavior annoys me. I use these extensions separately to avoid it:

- Empty New Tab Page, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...

- Google Art Project, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-art-project...

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