Retiring Chrome Frame

Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by atesti on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:43PM (#5876797)

Currently all those XP users can easily run Firefox or Chrome and are therefore not stuck to IE7, but I really wonder how long that will be possible. Will it be 1 or 2 years until Chrome won't run anymore on Windows XP? (Firefox has problems with the linker of older visual studio compilers already and any software compiled with a newer microsoft compiler will need the msvcrt update, unless you use http://kobyk.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/dynamically-linking-wi... )

Those XP machines will never be upgraded and many won't be replaced until there are no spare parts anymore.

One really can't trust Google to keep anything around for more than 6 months

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by illyism on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:05PM (#5876877)

Those XP machines can download an older version of Chrome if it ever comes to that. And if Google Chrome no longer provides support I'm sure Chromium will. XP is 10 years old. It's remarkable that Google does still support it (unlike Microsoft supporting their own software) so let's praise them on that.

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by scholia on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:04PM (#5877205)

Where do you download older versions of Chrome, please? I uninstalled Chrome 27 completely because it was unusable (slow, pale blue screens, crashy etc) on XP but Chrome 25 worked fine....

PS XP is 12 years old.

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by xaro on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:19PM (#5877293)

FileHippo saves old versions http://www.filehippo.com/es/download_google_chrome/history/

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by scholia on Friday June 14, 2013 @10:08AM (#5879982)

Many thanks! A few too many old versions, really ;-)

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by atesti on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:15PM (#5876927)

That older version wouldn't get security updates. And if it were to get them, but no new features, future web devs would forever be stuck with that old legacy webgl ;-)

But you are right that they should be praised for the past work.

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by epmatsw on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:07PM (#5876883)

If you're relying on more than 6 months of support (or any support really) from a free product in an enterprise environment, you're doing it wrong.

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Re:Retiring Chrome Frame by yawaramin on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:40PM (#5877659)

Microsoft will stop supporting XP in roughly a year. Then you either upgrade or expose yourself.

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