![]() ![]() In other words, for those running one of the now-abandoned operating systems, Chrome will be a lot less secure. And because Google bakes Adobe's Flash Player - a notoriously vulnerable application - into Chrome, the browser's users will no longer get Flash security updates. Users of XP, Vista, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion can continue to run Chrome - it won't stop working simply because version 50 appeared - but they will no longer receive browser upgrades containing new or enhanced features, or bug fixes and security patches. Like most people, I cycle frequently between various tabs and windows, use my bookmark bar frequently (can’t do on this), use tab groups to sort multiple tabs (can’t do), and use Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets almost constantly (limited and honestly counterproductive). That wasn't true then or now: Microsoft continues to support Windows Vista with security updates and will issue patches for the OS through April 11, 2017. Google Needs to Put Desktop Chrome on the iPad I use Chrome on windows and Mac for work every day. At the time, Google argued that those operating systems "were no longer actively supported by Microsoft and Apple." But in November it pushed back the deadline to April 2016 and added Vista and the three versions of OS X to the drop list. A year ago, Google announced that it would end support for Chrome on Windows XP by the end of 2015.
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