Google Chrome 138 Will Be Last Version to Support macOS Big Sur

[darngooddesign]

Articles like this sure ducked the point home for the new versioning scheme with number instead of nonsense names. Is Monterrey before Big Sur or Lake Tahoe or whatever? I have no idea.

The article does also say MacOS11, but with a little deductive reasoning you can figure that out. Chrome runs on BigSur and newer so if you have Monterey and are running Chrome it is newer than BigSur. Next year they drop support for BigSur but since Monterey is newer than BigSur you can still run Chrome.

Easy peasy if you use your noggin.

 

[gmm421]

You think it’s bad now wait until Intel is completely dropped, google will jump from Big Sur to macOS 27

Some of my computers are still running Mojave and Firefox is still providing security updates for their ESR version a year after they said they would stop.

Google may not even have Chrome to update

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www.latimes.com

 

[Shirasaki]

As it turns out, Safari and Chrome are not the only browsers available. I use Firefox and you also have Edge as mainstream browsers, and then you also have many other small ones. Personally, I never have compatibility problems with Firefox and it's very fast.

Firefox has its own quirks and websites don’t work well with them sometimes. Edge is based on chrome so ehh. Only Safari and Firefox are true alternative to Chrome and given the clear market dominance of Chrome it is obvious what devs would do to optimise their website.

 

[darngooddesign]

Firefox has its own quirks and websites don’t work well with them sometimes. Edge is based on chrome so ehh. Only Safari and Firefox are true alternative to Chrome and given the clear market dominance of Chrome it is obvious what devs would do to optimise their website.

Regardless of what you think of Firefox, it is the browser most compatible with the NVDA screen reader so it has a lot of users.

 

[Shirasaki]

Regardless of what you think of Firefox, it is the browser most compatible with the NVDA screen reader so it has a lot of users.

Apparently not enough users to count for any serious level of marketshare, which is such a shame considering it is using its own rendering engine.

 

[bluecoast]

Big Sur. Makes me nostalgic for the pandemic. Umm maybe not.

Also it feels like yesterday that the Mac got a redesign and hey ho here's another.

 

[Pow!]

Steam is based on Chrome. Whatever Google does with Chrome, Valve has to follow with Steam, which is why we just lost Mojave support for Steam on Feb. 15 2024. This means Ventura will likely soon be the cutoff for Steam on macOS.