One of the peachy benefits of Apple moving to Intel CPUs is that we take access to Google's Chrome browser, which rapidly displaced Firefox as the culling browser of choice amidst Windows users after its release in Sept. 2008. For some of us, that is coming to an finish in April.

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Google Chrome 5.0 (May 2010) was the beginning version available on Macs and Linux; previous versions were Windows-but. It never supportedOs 10 10.4 Tiger and initially requiredOs X 10.5 Leopard, which it abandoned on Sept. 15, 2012 with the release of Chrome 22. Version 39 (November. 2014) left behind 32-bit only Macs (Cadre Solo and Cadre Duo models from 2006), although information technology worked just fine on 64-bit Macs running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

This fourth dimension Google isn't only leaving behind ane or 2 versions of Os X – information technology's dropping OS Ten 10.6 Snowfall Leopard, ten.7 Lion, and x.8 Mountain King of beasts. Those were release in August 2009, July 2011, and July 2012, respectively, with Mount Lion last updated in October 2013, and so betwixt them they were current for a period of more than 4 years and the virtually recent version was updated just 2-i/two years ago.

Google Chrome blogAnyhow, here'due south what Google has to say well-nigh it:

Earlier this year, we appear that Google Chrome would go along support for Windows XP through the residue of 2015. At that time, we strongly encouraged users on older, unsupported platforms such equally Windows XP to update to a supported, secure operating system. Such older platforms are missing disquisitional security updates and have a greater potential to exist infected past viruses and malware.

Today, we're announcing the terminate of Chrome'southward support for Windows XP, likewise every bit Windows Vista, and Mac Bone X x.six, x.7, and x.8, since these platforms are no longer actively supported past Microsoft and Apple. Starting Apr 2016, Chrome volition proceed to role on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.

If you are still on 1 of these unsupported platforms, we encourage you to move to a newer operating organization to ensure that yous proceed to receive the latest Chrome versions and features.

Posted by Marc Pawliger, Manager of Engineering science and Early Notifier

Google hasn't been solitary at leaving behind older versions of Mac Os 10. Firefox 4 didn't support OS X x.4 Tiger at all. That was way back in 2010. Firefox 16 works with OS X 10.five Leopard, but version 17, released Nov. 20, 2012, does not. Firefox still supports Bone X ten.6 Snow Leopard with version 44 and looks like it volition continue to exercise so.

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

Permit'southward non even go into how quickly Apple drops support for legacy versions of OS X with its Safari browser. That's probably ane of the big reasons people using older versions of Bone X are looking to Chrome and Firefox instead of Safari.

I tin can understand Apple doing this. They want you lot to buy new hardware. That's why you lot can download Os Ten for free starting with ten.ix Mavericks (the kickoff version since x.vi that I've used considering of this). If your Mac can run Mavericks, Yosemite, or El Capitan, you can take a fairly up-to-engagement version of Safari, iTunes, and Apple tree's other apps.

I can't sympathize why Google is doing this. Since when does Google care if Windows XP, Vista, and Bone X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 are actively supported by Microsoft and Apple? Peradventure it's Google's development tools that requires Windows 7 or OS 10 x.9. Perhaps information technology's just that Google Chrome is the well-nigh pop browser in the world, so what if you lose a few legacy users?

Our site stats for February, which practise skew toward people with older hardware, shows eleven.4% of site visitors using an Intel Mac are using Os X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and 6.2% are nevertheless on 10.7 Lion, while 10.8 Mountain Lion is in its expiry throes at only 3.0%. OS X 10.9 Mavericks, just ii versions old, is backside Snow Leopard at 8.seven%, and x.10 Yosemite has already dropped from a loftier of 52% to eighteen.viii% while 10.11 El Capitan accounts for nearly half our Intel Mac traffic at 49%.

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Firefox looks like the lone holdout among the big iii Mac browser makers. The Mozilla squad has not appear its intention to leave backside OS X 10.half dozen Snow Leopard users, at least not still. As one of them – I have Snowfall Leopard on my 2007 Mac mini – I am grateful.

If yous utilise Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion, I hope you are grateful equally well. Apple'southward Safari has abandoned y'all. Google's Chrome has abased you. Merely Firefox has not!

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

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