Google to IE6 users: Drop it like a bad habit

GMail is faster elsewhere Google’s Chrome, recently upgraded to version 1.0, apparently runs the popular GMail service at much faster speeds. So does Firefox. And IE7. And Safari. And Opera. And so on …
Google plays hardball GMail recently removed IE6 from its list of supported browsers and put a page on the menu bar targeting those users. Google says that upgrading would “make Google Mail run an average of twice as fast.”
IE6′s business baseInternet Explorer has built its sizable market share due to the glacial pace of businesses upgrading their browsers. On weekends, the browser’s share goes down considerably. Coincidence? We think not. source

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http://www.jeffgreco.com/ Jeff Greco

This is the best news for web designers in some time — who better to force an upgrade than Google, especially since Microsoft seems to have no interest?
http://www.jeffgreco.com Jeff Greco

This is the best news for web designers in some time — who better to force an upgrade than Google, especially since Microsoft seems to have no interest?

Posted on January 1, 2009 | tags