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Google will support Chrome for XP until end of the year

article published on 18 April, 2015

A year ago, Microsoft stopped support for their decade-old Windows XP operating system, meaning the millions of users still running the OS are vulnerable to exploits. Google wants to help. Says Google: "At the operating system level, computers running XP are inherently in danger of being infected by malware and viruses, making it increasingly difficult for Chrome to provide a secure browsing ... [ read the full article ]

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xnonsuchx
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_ 		18. April 2015 @ 23:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yet there's no real reason it cannot continue to work on XP. They can stop testing it on XP, but if it refuses to run on XP, they will have purposely crippled it like some other software has been.
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audvare
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_ 		19. April 2015 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
For the few XP VMs I have (and one single-purpose machine that needs XP), I stopped using Chrome on them partially because Chrome really wants real GPU support nowadays, uses a lot more resources (remember that 32-bit XP memory limit of ~3.7 GiB) and because I know they are going to stop supporting eventually.

If a browser is absolutely necessary on an XP machine, I suggest using (optionally portable) Firefox. It is secure, supports most everything Chrome does, and uses less resources. For now Firefox is still supporting XP (SP2 and above). There is also Opera for time being.
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