Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by toxican on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:27AM
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In what way isn't it easy/fast now? Upgrading from something like IE7 is as easy and downloading/installing and you're done. It'll hold your hand through carrying over your data from the old browser and even ask if you want it to be the new default. Then updates from there are done automatically in the background without any user input.
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Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by xg15 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:32PM
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But how about the part where you can also reverse the update easily because you don't like the UI changes or an important extension broke?
Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by dmitri145 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:44AM
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Can't speak about the M$oft world that I left long ago. However, as far as I understand, the issue is the OS, and many people simply prefer XP.
But Mac OS is no different. I've been on OS 10.5 and when Google stopped supporting Chrome there, it suddenly stopped working with Youtube. Luckily, I've found a hack and wrote a script launching Chrome without that disable setting. Which proves that there was absolutely no reason to forcefully disable what worked for users for many years.