Google Chrome to abandon older versions of Mac OS X April 2016

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Google Chrome to abandon older versions of Windows and Mac OS X April 2016 - Fran's Computer Services Blog

 

Back in November of 2015, Google made an unwelcome announcement which was some very bad news for older Windows and older Mac OS X users.

 

On their Google Chrome Blog posting at that time, Google announced that it will stop providing updates to Google Chrome for the following Windows and Mac OS X versions;

• Windows XP
  
• Windows Vista
  
• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
  
• Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
  
• Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  

NOTE: Linux 32-bit Distribution users see the end of this article for your sad news too, but most of you are already aware of this since it happens this month!

 

This does not mean Google Chrome will stop working in these OS versions — which would almost be better security wise. Instead, Google has decided to simply stop providing updates to the installed versions of Google Chrome for these OS versions.

 

This is very bad news since Google Chrome has Flash built in (which is updated as needed with Google Chrome). These older versions of Windows and Mac OS X will be doubly vulnerable. Over the years, these users have gotten used to not having to update Flash separately like you need to do in other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera, earlier versions of Internet Explorer, Pale Moon, etc.

Because Flash is built in to Google Chrome, these abandoned users will not be getting the Flash updates either.

 

Much more in the article including what to do about this issue.