No more chrome for Windows 7 and 8 from 2023...
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Hello,
Google announced that there would be no more chrome for Windows 7 and 8 from 2023... does it mean that there will be no more Vivaldi for windows 7 and 8 from 2023 (I'm in windows 7 32bit and I can't change my OS, nor my PC...) -
@darth2602 I fear that any Windows and other OS reaching its End of Life Cycle, will not be supported by Vivaldi.
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@DoctorG wonderful ....
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@darth2602
Hi, it will take some time until Vivaldi does not work on such systems but if you report a bug with Windows 7 and Vivaldi it gets rejected.Do you really have a Pentium 4 system?
If not add a second HDD or better SSD and boot from BIOS your Windows 7 or the Windows 10 or a Linux install.
Some user need older OS for special software, for example.Cheers, mib
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My setup :
Local PC
Asus p5q pro + core 2 quad + 4go ram Gskill + Windows 7 32 bit integral- 4 HD 2To + Nvidia GTX 730 + Soundblaster ZX -> note fully compatible Win 8 and 10...
Shadow Cloud PC (accessible through an application in win 7)
Win 10 64 + 12go ram + GTX 1080 16 Go + 256 go SSD + 720 Go HD -
@darth2602
Ah, you are a musician, Soundblaster ZX is Windows 11 compatible, the Shadow Cloud app is not?
Anyway, if you have hard or software compatible with Windows XP you cant use an actual browser.
I guess Vivaldi run on Windows 7 for a long time until it really break.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in No more chrome for Windows 7 and 8 from 2023...:
Hi, it will take some time until Vivaldi does not work on such systems but if you report a bug with Windows 7 and Vivaldi it gets rejected
Do you mean that the Version will be blocked?
I suppose V will not adapt the ChVersions to keep working on W7, so those on 7 will not be able to update since Chromium engine limitation.
Right?
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@DoctorG said in No more chrome for Windows 7 and 8 from 2023...:
@darth2602 I fear that any Windows and other OS reaching its End of Life Cycle, will not be supported by Vivaldi.
Despite at some point will be dropped.
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@Zalex108
Yes, at some point the source code does not compile anymore on Win 7 or they need features of the OS Win 7 does not have Chromium browsers may not even start anymore.
It was the same with Windows XP, after Vivaldi 1.1 it stops working.Cheers, mib
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The actual problem for Win7 support is not that it won't build (which was the why 32-bit Linux is no longer supported, it required versions of libraries not supported on 32-bit OSes), because we would use the same executable as is running on all Windows versions.
Primarily the browser will fail to run because the source code that supported fallbacks to special modifications to Windows API calls that will make it work on Win7 have been removed.
The same thing is happening now and then for MacOS; there was a recent change in which MacOS versions are supported, and following that, the special code segments that selected special actions for those versions were removed.
There were a similar support retirement for WinXP a few years ago, too.
Additionally, there have been removal of support for certain types of CPU, too.
In all these cases support is removed because it is 1) complicated to maintain code with such special handling of OSes, especially since it can be difficult to test them, and 2) because these OSes are no longer supported by the OS vendor, which means the OS itself is unsecure, and it might be possible to attack the user despite all the countermeasures in the browser and OS.
Unfortunately, It is not practical for us to reinsert the relevant code and maintain it.
Essentially, it is time to move to a newer OS version.
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@darth2602 Hopefully Opera will continue to support old versions of Windows.
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@Eggcorn , I think the problem will be the same for all other browser. The best solution will be a dual bot with Linux, using the old Windows locally for this needed apps and Linux to go online with Vivaldi.
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It looks like Google is ending chrome support for Windows 7 & 8.1 early 2023. Will this have an effect on Vivaldi as well?
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ModEdit: Duplicate
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@mane As Vivaldi uses the Chromium core base, a unsupported OS will not work with Vivaldi in future,
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Knowing Google they will put some check to force the browser to not work if Windows 10 is not detected, even if the browser can still work with 7.
So the question can be rephrased in "Will Vivaldi skip the check and continue to work in Windows 7 if there is no real need of Windows 10 ?"
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Yngve already replied here, but we now also have a longer post about this topic on https://vivaldi.com/blog/pulling-the-plug-on-expired-operating-systems/.