

Chrome also offers customization options with extensions, applications and themes, as well as a quick bookmark system that allows users to access recently or regularly visited sites easily. It stands out for its fast operation speed and the ability to search snapshots, making it an efficient tool with minimal resource consumption. Google Chrome is a popular browser that can be used on various platforms, including mobile devices and computers. File chrome_installer.exe is compatible with: Microsoft continues to patch its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Vista.Īpple no longer patches Safari on OS X Mountain Lion and earlier.Ĭhrome's official systems requirements, which include the supported operating systems, can be found here.You're downloading Google Chrome.

Mozilla's Firefox, for example, supports all the operating systems Chrome just dumped, while Opera Software's Opera supports all but OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard. Failing that, customers can drop Chrome for a rival that does continue to support the old or obsolete OSes. Google has recommended that users upgrade their PC's operating system to Windows 7 or later, or on a Mac, OS X Mavericks or later. In other words, for those running one of the now-abandoned operating systems, Chrome will be a lot less secure. And because Google bakes Adobe's Flash Player - a notoriously vulnerable application - into Chrome, the browser's users will no longer get Flash security updates. Users of XP, Vista, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion can continue to run Chrome - it won't stop working simply because version 50 appeared - but they will no longer receive browser upgrades containing new or enhanced features, or bug fixes and security patches. That wasn't true then or now: Microsoft continues to support Windows Vista with security updates and will issue patches for the OS through April 11, 2017.

At the time, Google argued that those operating systems "were no longer actively supported by Microsoft and Apple." But in November it pushed back the deadline to April 2016 and added Vista and the three versions of OS X to the drop list. A year ago, Google announced that it would end support for Chrome on Windows XP by the end of 2015.
