Gmail, yellow banner

11 years ago

When I get on gmail I get this banner. I have IE 8.

"""You are using a version of Internet Explorer which will soon be unsupported. Some features may not work correctly.

Upgrade to a modern browser, such as Google Chrome. Dismiss."""

Is this for real, do I need to upgrade to IE9?

Thanks!

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breenthumb
11 years ago
Just sounds like Google advertising to me.
zep516
11 years ago
"I heard somewhere that Google has a policy of supporting the two most recent versions of popular browsers. So far, this has meant IE8 and IE9.

This Friday, IE10 will be released with Windows 8. After that, Google will support IE9 and IE10.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Google will suddenly stop working on IE8. Most services such as Gmail will probably continue to work for at least a couple of years. Some of the newer, fancier features might begin to look a little broken after a while, but as your own experience with IE7 shows, "not officially supported" doesn't mean "not supported at all".
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
11 years ago
That really chaps me when they do that, I use an older version of firefox on one of my linux systems and everytime I go to gmail on it that happens to me too. I know it will work fine because the day before they started doing that it worked perfectly with all the bells and whistles then bam there is the message and only the bare essentials work.
Not that big a deal because I rarely use gmail but still it is just them wanting to try to get you to go to Chrome.
Most sites support much older browsers.

And of course if you still use XP you can not go up from IE8 because IE9 and up are not made for xp. This is one more way they start to force people to move away from xp.
owbist
11 years ago
This Friday, IE10 will be released with Windows 8. After that, Google will support IE9 and IE10.

Not quite sure that might be correct because as I understand things Windows XP cannot run IE9 so perhaps Google will extend that as there are far too many XP users to be ignored methinks. Time will tell of course.
owbist
11 years ago
Raven posted this while I was busy 2 finger pecking And of course if you still use XP you can not go up from IE8 because IE9 and up are not made for xp. This is one more way they start to force people to move away from xp.

Not too sure Google will go out of it's way to enhanced the profit margins for their friends over at Microsoft. Again, I could be wrong of course.
plantmaven
Original Author
11 years ago
I thank you for the input. I am not very pc literate. I use gmail as my only email. Before I had many pc problems and made the decision to no longer use the email through my cable company.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
11 years ago
I bet however that their Google Chrome browser will still work with xp LOL so there we go, if you have XP and can not go to IE 9 or above they will be happy for you to use their newest latest version of Chrome. Which for some may be a very good thing who knows!

I agree Owbist they are definitely not out to help Microsoft profit LOL.