Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023

DoctorG

Windows

Important: Chrome is extending support for Windows 7 through January 15, 2023 for critical security and stability updates.

To use Chrome browser on Windows, you'll need:

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or later

An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable

Note: Servers require Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Windows Server 2016.

Mac

To use Chrome browser on Mac, you'll need:

OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later

Linux

To use Chrome browser on Linux, you'll need:

64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+

An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable

Android

To use Chrome browser on Android, you'll need:

Android Marshmallow 6.0 or later

See google.com/chrome/a/answer/7100626?hl=en

Seems Vivaldi 5.5 or 5.6 could be the last which works on Windows 7.

Eggcorn

@DoctorG said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

Seems Vivaldi 5.5 or 5.6 could be the last which works on Windows 7.

With Windows 7 no longer receiving security updates, it'd be better to install another operating system (such as Linux) anyway.

DoctorG

@Eggcorn Yes, true. A OS which gets updates is the best choice.

I wanted to tell that Windows 7 support could end for newer Vivaldi browsers.

guigirl

@DoctorG said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

To use Chrome browser on Linux, you'll need:
64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+

Yay, fantastic -- logically, from that, cannot install Crime on Arch or Archies -- excellent!

Eggcorn

@DoctorG said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

Chrome stops support of older [...] Android in 2023
To use Chrome browser on Android, you'll need: Android Marshmallow 6.0 or later

I thought Chrome already required Android 6 or later?

Catweazle

It's still possible to update W7 to W10 for free, if you don't want Linux, a bigger problem is that the support of 32 bit systems also isn't infinite and willend in the near future.

iambozdar

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

the support of 32 bit systems also isn't infinite and willend in the near future.

Rest assure... Debian 12 will continue x86 32bit legacy. If the Vivaldi team cares, they can continue to support the Debian community. LMDE is also Debian based, and it has a number of userbase to admire.

Eggcorn

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

It's still possible to update W7 to W10 for free, if you don't want Linux

Windows 10 will stop getting security updates in Oct. 2025, that's three years from now. And a computer that came with Windows 7 probably won't meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11.

In other words: A Windows 7 computer is running on borrowed time, even if you upgrade it to Windows 10. Might be better to just upgrade to Linux.

Catweazle

@Eggcorn , yes, MS said it will stop the support for 10 in 2025, but I don't belive it, for the same reason as ocurred in W7, whose support also terminated several years after the "offucial" end.
There are a still lot of NEW PC not compatible with W11, as mine, for example, becaus the support of AMD Radeon and some nVidia driversis still limitated in W11.
Not from the hardware, which my Laptop al offers to run W11.
Well, with 32 bits it need to be a PC before 2005 and I know a lot of people with older PC which are using W11without problems, because it's chipset is in the MS list, but mine isn't, despite fully meeting all other requirements.
I know that I can install it with a cheat and it will surely work, but this has no guarantees and I don't know how it will be then with the support from MS. We'll see in 2025, if it stays the same, I'll move to Linux anyway.

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stardepp

@Catweazle I managed to upgrade my PC to Windows 11 thanks to the Deskmodder forum / wiki, even though my PC has an unsupported processor:

https://www.deskmodder.de/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_11_auch_ohne_TPM_und_Secure_Boot_installieren

Pesala

It seems that we are all fighting a losing battle with tech companies grabbing our data. Vivaldi can only do so much. I dare not upgrade to Windows 11. No doubt I will have little choice eventually, as none of my important programs run on other Operating Systems.

Maybe I will have one old PC for my publication work, and a new one just for browsing and email.

greybeard

@guigirl said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

install Crime

Crime.... I like that.

DoctorG

@greybeard I guess she meant: grime

Catweazle

I only have Groot

leo32345

Ironically they are making "Chrome OS Flex" that people can download onto their old computers that no longer get OS updates. I guess they are trying to push people that way.

guigirl

@leo32345 said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

people can download

Only those peeps ignorant of, or allergic to, or prejudiced against, lovely Antarctic flightless birdies.

Ayespy

@guigirl Penguins emit a cacophony and smell terrible. Just sayin'...

guigirl

@Ayespy Horrid penguinist!

Aaron

@Catweazle said in Chrome stops support of older Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android in 2023:

We'll see in 2025, if it stays the same, I'll move to Linux anyway.

That being the case, I recommend you switch to Linux as soon as possible/now. Especially if you have little or no experience with Linux as your everyday desktop. You have to consider whether the daily apps have corresponding Linux versions, and whether the data files supported by these apps communicate with others, whether the data formats of each other support each other. In other words, whether the entire software environment is compatible with the surrounding work environment. From my experience, two years should be enough for this switching process. Although there are still a few apps that must use the Windows version (such as Visio) (so I still run Windows occasionally in a virtual machine)
(Thanks Google Translation.....Vivaldi.....Come on Vivaldi)

Catweazle

@Aaron , I know, I'm not a newbee in Linux, because of this I know that for some tasks, Linux isn't the best option and the only what is posible to cover this is to use it in dual boot.
But this currently is changing and there are more and more companies and defs with soft also for Linux, not only games, but also official and profesional soft, until now only for Windows.
We'll see in2025, until now I don't see much use in moving from an OS that works exactly as I want (which has cost me a lot of dedication to do it, to throw out all the garbage that Windows comes with by default), to another OS that can't run some apps that I use .