If you're still using and old version of Windows or Mac OS X, your days of using Google's Chrome browser are numbered.
Google announced Tuesday that in April 2016, it will end support for Windows Vista and XP, as well as Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Microsoft and Apple(AAPL) have recently ended support for those years-old and outdated operating systems, so Google said it is pulling the plug too.
Lion, however, seized that gesture and assigned it as the command to move between full-screen applications, another new feature of OS X 10.7. With the change, Chrome. First, Chrome 14, which was just released in the Dev channel today, removes window scrollbars by default. This mimics the look and feel of other OS X Lion apps, include Apple's own Safari web browser.
But it looks like Chrome OS won’t be the only new operating system to offer the full-screen browser-style user experience. MacRumors reports that OS X 10.7 Lion has a new “restart to Safari. Question: Q: Google chrome and os x lion 10.7.5 More Less. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the.
'Such older platforms are missing critical security updates and have a greater potential to be infected by viruses and malware,' Google's Marc Pawliger wrote in a company blog post.
The news mostly affects Windows XP customers, since XP still runs on nearly 12% of the world's PCs, according to NetMarketShare. Less than 1.5% of PCs still run Vista and less than 1% of computers are still on Mac OS X 10.8 or earlier.
People with older operating systems will still be able to use Chrome, but they will no longer receive updates or security fixes, Google's Pawliger said.
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Microsoft(MSFT)finally stopped supporting XP in April 2014, 13 years after it first launched the operating system. It has remained popular, particularly in China and in bank ATMs.
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Google(GOOGL) had earlier said that it would commit to supporting Chrome on XP through at least 2015, but this is the first time the company has announced a kill-date for XP support.