Chrome 50 (stable) Released for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Ends support for Windows XP, Vista, & Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

[engine]

This stable version of Chrome includes a number of significant changes which include twenty security fixes and bug fixes, and better push notification management, and no longer supports TLS version fallbacks. The full-screen animation crash and font pre-load crash is now sorted.

[googlechromereleases.blogspot.com...]


Additionally, Chrome has ended support for Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista, and Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8.
[chrome.googleblog.com...]

[bill]

Yet another signal that if you're still using XP, don't use it for anything on the web. ;) Yes, it may seem unfortunate that Microsoft won't support an OS that was released 14 years ago, but hardly any other platform does either.

[engine]

I would guess it'll still work, but will be at risk. I still find it surprising that 181 million PCs still use the older software. [webmasterworld.com...]

[lucy24]

Fifty?! Five-zero? Did the programmers at some point forget that version numbers are allowed to have decimal points?

:: detour to log check ::

So what's the premise here? Change one comma and it goes from 45.0.1234.12 to 45.0.1234.13; change two commas and it goes to 45.0.1235.12; three and it's 45.1.1234.12. Change a semicolon and we're in version 46?

[keyplyr]

Mine says: Version 50.0.2661.75 m

[mcneely]

I still find it surprising that 181 million PCs still use the older software.

I still find it surprising that there may be that many and more still using Windows --

but I digress --

I quit just about everything Google right at about the time they decided to leave their toolbar on after we supposedly shut it off -- Chrome 50 or 5,000 -- doesn't matter -- The bridge got burned back in the day and Google has done nothing to try and rebuild it -- smh

[tangor]

Yet another signal that if you're still using XP, don't use it for anything on the web.

Commonsense, good practice and third party will keep XP and Vista alive for a bit longer. While I personally agree we should all be using the latest and greatest I also recognize there's STILL a significant sector that runs these older systems (and don't get me started on the ancient Macs out there!).

Chrome should move on.

Meanwhile older versions of Chrome will still run and if they should fail at some future time something else might replace it ... Like Internet Explorer or Firefox. :)