One of the great benefits of Apple moving to Intel CPUs is that we take admission to Google'south Chrome browser, which rapidly displaced Firefox as the alternative browser of choice amongst Windows users afterwards its release in Sept. 2008. For some of us, that is coming to an stop in Apr.

Warning message from Google

Google Chrome five.0 (May 2010) was the starting time version available on Macs and Linux; previous versions were Windows-but. It never supportedOS X 10.four Tiger and initially requiredBone X 10.v Leopard, which it abased on Sept. fifteen, 2012 with the release of Chrome 22. Version 39 (Nov. 2014) left behind 32-chip just Macs (Core Solo and Core Duo models from 2006), although information technology worked just fine on 64-bit Macs running Bone Ten 10.6 Snow Leopard.

This fourth dimension Google isn't just leaving behind one or two versions of OS 10 – it's dropping Os Ten 10.6 Snowfall Leopard, x.seven Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. Those were release in August 2009, July 2011, and July 2012, respectively, with Mountain Lion last updated in October 2013, so between them they were current for a menstruation of more than than four years and the virtually recent version was updated just 2-1/2 years agone.

Google Chrome blogAnyhow, hither'due south what Google has to say about it:

Earlier this yr, we announced that Google Chrome would continue support for Windows XP through the residue of 2015. At that time, nosotros strongly encouraged users on older, unsupported platforms such as Windows XP to update to a supported, secure operating organisation. Such older platforms are missing disquisitional security updates and have a greater potential to be infected past viruses and malware.

Today, we're announcing the terminate of Chrome's support for Windows XP, as well every bit Windows Vista, and Mac OS X 10.half dozen, 10.7, and x.8, since these platforms are no longer actively supported past Microsoft and Apple. Starting April 2016, Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.

If you are notwithstanding on i of these unsupported platforms, we encourage you to move to a newer operating system to ensure that you go along to receive the latest Chrome versions and features.

Posted by Marc Pawliger, Director of Engineering and Early Notifier

Google hasn't been lonely at leaving behind older versions of Mac Os X. Firefox 4 didn't support OS X 10.4 Tiger at all. That was manner back in 2010. Firefox sixteen works with Bone Ten ten.v Leopard, simply version 17, released Nov. twenty, 2012, does not. Firefox yet supports OS Ten 10.six Snowfall Leopard with version 44 and looks like information technology will continue to do so.

Update: Firefox 47 (released June 2016, final version 47.0.1 in June 2016) was the last version to support Snowfall Leopard, but Firefox 45esr (released March 2016, last version was 45.9.0 in April 2017) has more than up-to-appointment security.

Allow'due south not fifty-fifty go into how speedily Apple drops support for legacy versions of Bone X with its Safari browser. That'due south probably i of the big reasons people using older versions of OS 10 are looking to Chrome and Firefox instead of Safari.

I tin understand Apple doing this. They want you to buy new hardware. That'southward why yous can download Os 10 for free starting with x.9 Mavericks (the first version since 10.6 that I've used because of this). If your Mac tin run Mavericks, Yosemite, or El Capitan, you tin can accept a fairly up-to-engagement version of Safari, iTunes, and Apple's other apps.

I tin can't understand why Google is doing this. Since when does Google care if Windows XP, Vista, and Os X 10.half-dozen, 10.vii, and x.eight are actively supported past Microsoft and Apple tree? Maybe it'south Google's development tools that requires Windows 7 or OS Ten ten.nine. Maybe it's but that Google Chrome is the near pop browser in the world, so what if yous lose a few legacy users?

Our site stats for February, which do skew toward people with older hardware, shows 11.4% of site visitors using an Intel Mac are using OS X ten.6 Snow Leopard, and 6.2% are still on ten.7 King of beasts, while 10.8 Mountain Lion is in its death throes at merely 3.0%. OS Ten ten.9 Mavericks, only two versions erstwhile, is backside Snow Leopard at 8.seven%, and 10.ten Yosemite has already dropped from a high of 52% to 18.eight% while 10.11 El Capitan accounts for nearly one-half our Intel Mac traffic at 49%.

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Firefox looks like the lone holdout among the big three Mac browser makers. The Mozilla team has not announced its intention to leave behind Os 10 ten.six Snow Leopard users, at least non yet. Equally one of them – I take Snowfall Leopard on my 2007 Mac mini – I am grateful.

If y'all use Snow Leopard, Panthera leo, or Mountain Lion, I hope you lot are grateful too. Apple'south Safari has abandoned you lot. Google'southward Chrome has abandoned you. But Firefox has not!

If you haven't tried it lately, maybe this is a good time to check out Firefox 44.

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