One of the bully benefits of Apple moving to Intel CPUs is that we have admission to Google's Chrome browser, which chop-chop displaced Firefox equally the alternative browser of choice amidst Windows users after its release in Sept. 2008. For some of u.s.a., that is coming to an end in Apr.

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Google Chrome five.0 (May 2010) was the first version available on Macs and Linux; previous versions were Windows-only. It never supportedBone X x.4 Tiger and initially requiredOs Ten 10.5 Leopard, which it abased on Sept. 15, 2012 with the release of Chrome 22. Version 39 (November. 2014) left backside 32-bit simply Macs (Core Solo and Core Duo models from 2006), although information technology worked just fine on 64-bit Macs running OS X ten.6 Snow Leopard.

This time Google isn't just leaving backside one or two versions of OS X – it's dropping Bone X 10.vi Snowfall Leopard, x.vii Lion, and ten.8 Mount Lion. Those were release in August 2009, July 2011, and July 2012, respectively, with Mountain Lion last updated in October 2013, and so between them they were current for a period of more than four years and the most recent version was updated simply 2-i/2 years ago.

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

Earlier this year, nosotros announced that Google Chrome would go along support for Windows XP through the residuum 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 by viruses and malware.

Today, nosotros're announcing the end of Chrome's support for Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista, and Mac OS Ten x.half dozen, 10.7, and x.8, since these platforms are no longer actively supported by Microsoft and Apple. Starting April 2016, Chrome will continue to office on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.

If yous are nonetheless on one of these unsupported platforms, we encourage you to move to a newer operating system to ensure that yous continue to receive the latest Chrome versions and features.

Posted by Marc Pawliger, Director of Engineering science and Early on Notifier

Google hasn't been lone at leaving behind older versions of Mac OS X. Firefox 4 didn't support OS X ten.four Tiger at all. That was way back in 2010. Firefox 16 works with OS X 10.5 Leopard, but version 17, released Nov. 20, 2012, does not. Firefox still supports OS 10 10.6 Snow Leopard with version 44 and looks like it volition continue to practice so.

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

Let'southward not even go into how quickly Apple drops support for legacy versions of Bone X with its Safari browser. That's probably 1 of the large reasons people using older versions of OS X are looking to Chrome and Firefox instead of Safari.

I can understand Apple doing this. They want you lot to buy new hardware. That's why you lot can download Bone Ten for free starting with 10.9 Mavericks (the showtime version since ten.6 that I've used considering of this). If your Mac can run Mavericks, Yosemite, or El Capitan, you can take a fairly up-to-date version of Safari, iTunes, and Apple tree's other apps.

I can't empathize why Google is doing this. Since when does Google care if Windows XP, Vista, and Os X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 are actively supported by Microsoft and Apple tree? Mayhap information technology'due south Google's development tools that requires Windows vii or OS X 10.ix. Mayhap it's merely that Google Chrome is the most pop browser in the world, so what if you lot lose a few legacy users?

Our site stats for Feb, which exercise skew toward people with older hardware, shows xi.4% of site visitors using an Intel Mac are using OS X 10.six Snowfall Leopard, and 6.2% are still on 10.7 King of beasts, while 10.8 Mount Panthera leo is in its death throes at merely 3.0%. OS X 10.9 Mavericks, only 2 versions old, is behind Snow Leopard at eight.vii%, and 10.10 Yosemite has already dropped from a loftier of 52% to 18.viii% while ten.xi El Capitan accounts for well-nigh one-half our Intel Mac traffic at 49%.

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Firefox looks like the alone holdout amidst the big three Mac browser makers. The Mozilla team has not announced its intention to leave behind Bone X 10.6 Snow Leopard users, at least not yet. Every bit ane of them – I have Snow Leopard on my 2007 Mac mini – I am grateful.

If you apply Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion, I hope you are grateful every bit well. Apple tree's Safari has abandoned you. Google'south Chrome has abased you lot. But Firefox has not!

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

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