Google dropping IE6 support in 2010

Got an email from Google today informing me that they're dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 this year. They'll start with Google Apps in March, and phase out support for IE6 from Gmail etc later in the year.

For those of us who have been eager to try and get people to stop using that absolutely horrendous excuse for a browser, this is great news.

It certainly is great news. Too much time and resources are being spent on an antique browser. It is on my Win 2K Pro laptop, but Firefox 3.6 is my browser. I'm a Microsoft fan, but not IE. IE8 shouldn't even had shipped with Windows 7, given it's unpopularity. IE7 is Windows most popular browser to date. But back to your point: Google breaks their own standards. They are planning to pull out of a Far East Communist country over internet censorship, when they themselves "spy" on it's users and violates their privacy everyday that goes by. Key in you username on the Google search engine, and look at what comes up. Don't be surprised to see 10+ pages of your forum posts. Back to that Far East country: The citizens are hopelessly trapped in their situation, spends years in prison doing hard labor for as much as speaking against the "authorities". And Google comes along and makes things worse for these people. Their posts are no more private than ours are. The people make accusations against the government through Google, they may as well be standing on their rooftops shouting their complaints. So, now you see how Google uses your information. But we live in a free country, and Google isn't on my list of search engines. They have been manually removed. However, it doesn't change the fact that I'm in support of pulling the plug on IE6, too. We shouldn't be Band-Aiding a venerable browser for years when we have more important matters at hand. The support that is going towards supporting IE6 could be developing IE9. We need it, and need it badly.

First off, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...&aq=f&aqi=&oq=.

Next, the reason our user profiles come up (or don't) is because w7forums.com is a public site and so are our profiles. W7forums is like the fourth thing that comes up if you type in "windows 7 forums".

And last, HOORAY! Internet Explorer its self is a horribly dreadful browser, no matter what version you're using.

I couldn't agree with you more on the IE issue. All of the Active X controls that they use are putting our security at risk. Seems that in 2010, there would be a better way for us than having these controls. And the really bad thing is, they're left behind. I run Windows Live Safety Scanner on a weekly basis, and lots of them are removed. If they didn't need to be removed, the program wouldn't suggest removing them.

Take off the tin foil hat for a second... You are supposed to find your posts when you look up your username (assuming it's unique enough). That's the whole point of a search engine. Webmasters and coders go to painstaking degrees to ensure that their forums and websites are indexed by search engine spiders. That is why posts on pcworld.com etc show up in Bing!, too, when I type in your username; because it's a search engine doing what it's supposed to do, not because Microsoft is out to get you.

If a webmaster doesn't want their website/forum/blog/pr0n stash indexed by a search engine, they can set it up that way. Don't want your posts being found through a search engine? Talk to the webmaster; Google is doing precisely what those who understand what a search engine is supposed to do, want it to do.

I think you mean vulnerable here. Venerable means worthy of reverence. LOL

Besides a discussion of IE 6 is basically useless. Since no one on this forum uses it.

Are there people still using IE6?

Apparently in the corporate world they are!

Says Wikipedia: Its use in the corporate world is still very pervasive, even in the United States.

I still use IE6 on two laptops, but very little.