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Gmail no longer supporting Chrome Browser version 53 and below

18 points by leothekim 10y ago

jffry 10y ago
Important context from the article: Starting February 8, 2017, we will show a banner at the top of the Gmail interface for users who are still on Google Chrome Browser v53 and below to encourage upgrading to the latest version And Gmail will continue to function on Chrome Browser v53 and below through the end of the year. Users who remain on Chrome v53 and below could be redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as Dec 2017.
dvcc 10y ago
For those wondering Chrome v53 was released about 6 months ago. That's quite amazing.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  It's really not that amazoling; their official, published supported browser policy is that only the current release of Chrome is supported, and they are actually supporting v53 until December. This is, per the post, only being specially announced because it affects WinXP and Vista users, because Chrome hasn't supported those platforms after v49.
citrusui 10y ago
This change will likely impact Electron apps that access the Gmail web interface. It was only recently that Electron 1.5.0 beta (https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.5.0 https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.5.0) brought with it Chromium 54.
frikk 10y ago
I'm kind of frustrated at this, heh. I'm on chrome 49 because I can't install anything newer on my linux mint machine. I can't install a newer one because of a dependency, which requires a newer kernel version. So I'm stuck with an out dated version of Chrome due to my linux kernel version (which I don't feel like updating and alienating my virtualbox drivers). Chrome 49 isn't even that old, I think it is < 1 year.
- philtar 10y ago
  Use firefox
  - frikk 10y ago
    Likely my best course of action.
- Markoff 10y ago
  what about changing user agent?
- xiaoma 10y ago
  Google doesn't care about you.
- londons_explore 10y ago
  Using a 1 year old browser really is suicide when you look at the security bugs fixed over that year... I get nervous when my browser is a week old because I haven't restarted it. Even a week is a long time to do wide distribution of a zero-day exploit.

18 points by leothekim 10y ago

jffry 10y ago

Important context from the article: Starting February 8, 2017, we will show a banner at the top of the Gmail interface for users who are still on Google Chrome Browser v53 and below to encourage upgrading to the latest version And Gmail will continue to function on Chrome Browser v53 and below through the end of the year. Users who remain on Chrome v53 and below could be redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as Dec 2017.

dvcc 10y ago

For those wondering Chrome v53 was released about 6 months ago. That's quite amazing.

dragonwriter 10y ago
It's really not that amazoling; their official, published supported browser policy is that only the current release of Chrome is supported, and they are actually supporting v53 until December. This is, per the post, only being specially announced because it affects WinXP and Vista users, because Chrome hasn't supported those platforms after v49.

citrusui 10y ago

This change will likely impact Electron apps that access the Gmail web interface. It was only recently that Electron 1.5.0 beta (https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.5.0 https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.5.0) brought with it Chromium 54.

frikk 10y ago

I'm kind of frustrated at this, heh. I'm on chrome 49 because I can't install anything newer on my linux mint machine. I can't install a newer one because of a dependency, which requires a newer kernel version. So I'm stuck with an out dated version of Chrome due to my linux kernel version (which I don't feel like updating and alienating my virtualbox drivers). Chrome 49 isn't even that old, I think it is < 1 year.

philtar 10y ago
Use firefox
- frikk 10y ago
  Likely my best course of action.
Markoff 10y ago
what about changing user agent?
xiaoma 10y ago
Google doesn't care about you.
londons_explore 10y ago
Using a 1 year old browser really is suicide when you look at the security bugs fixed over that year... I get nervous when my browser is a week old because I haven't restarted it. Even a week is a long time to do wide distribution of a zero-day exploit.