Posted by ArtG/KS on 9/25/12 6:43pm
Msg #435893

IE8 and below ref: Google

In november if you are using XP and use google, google will no longer support email or Gmail inside of IE8 sometime that month.
In other words you will need to go to at least windows 7 to get IE9 or IE10 to work using google email. There are options but I will post on those later. Firefox may be one or Google Chrome for another but I would wait till beta tests are in.
Any geeks out there to clarify this-would be appreciated as this is a bit over my comfort zone to comment on.

Reply by MikeC/TX on 9/26/12 2:18pm
Msg #436028

In 2011, Google announced that it would start dropping support for Gmail on "obsolete" browsers. Their definition of "obsolete" is anything older than the last two versions, so when IE9 was released they dropped support for IE7. Now that IE10 is released, if they are consistent, they will drop support for IE8 - which means you would have to upgrade to Windows 7 in order to use Gmail with Internet Explorer as your web browser. However, I haven't seen anything definite about dropping IE8 yet, so I'm curious where you got your information.

They will still support the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, which (as far as I know) don't care if you use XP or Win 7, so if they DO drop support the solution is to simply change the browser you use for Gmail to one that isn't tied to the Operating System. Both Firefox and Opera are better than IE8 anyway...