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Post by phoney on Feb 23, 2010 21:15:55 GMT
YouTube Puts Another Nail in the IE6 Coffin By MIKE MELANSON of ReadWriteWeb Published: February 23, 2010 Read HereGoogle-owned YouTube will end support for Internet Explorer 6 on March 13, just two weeks after ending support on Google Docs. Currently, IE6 accounts for about 20% of surfers worldwide, with IE8 currently the most popular version. |
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Post by mikkh on Feb 24, 2010 0:22:57 GMT
Well IE 6 has been the inbuilt browser in XP since it's début in 2001, so it's definitely not before time.
I have to wonder about the 20% figure though. Windows 98/ME users will have IE 6 as their ceiling limit, but I can't believe there's still that many 98/ME machines about, so there must be an awful lot of die hard XP users faithfully sticking to it too.
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Post by Pete on Aug 28, 2010 22:29:32 GMT
Hi My friend still has the older pc runnning XP, and ie6, they have been told after sept 1 to upgrade to ie8, but it won't take it. So I have put firefox on for them, they are happy with that.
Pete
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Post by nike on Aug 28, 2010 22:53:17 GMT
My XP Home and XP Pro installer discs have IE6 on them both. I have to manually install IE8 on every machine unless I get a couple of later edition discs. With W7 slowly taking XP's place, I aint gunna do that!
YouTube won't run on IE6 now! I go there to load the latest flash player and am told that I have to uipdate my browser. I'm then directed to a page with about 6 browser choices, IE8 being one of them. Once it's installed, it goes back to YouTube and allows me to install Flash Player 10.
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Post by Pete on Aug 29, 2010 18:14:03 GMT
Thanks Nike.......I tried doing that but it would not load, so after spending too much time trying I gave up on it. So will see how they get on with Firefox, if they complain I will have another try lol.
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Post by ken on Aug 29, 2010 19:00:43 GMT
I installed IE 8 on XP x 64, when it was BETA. It was OK for a week or so and then when all funny on me. I rolled it back until it had been out for a while, then reinstalled it for a short while just before I changed everything over to Win7. It seemed to work OK. I installed it on the Wee Beastie; which is still running XP x 86 SP3, as my mates lad likes to play his older games that wont run on Win7. It was Flash 10 that forced me to install it on that, but it all seems to be working OK and I had no trouble installing it. His mum would have told me by now, if there was any trouble with it.
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