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Gmail notice touts Chrome and Firefox, dismisses IE as too slow
Google urges Internet Explorer users to upgrade to a faster browser for running Gmail
December 30, 2008 12:00 PM ETActive Comments
Dave Lindhout says:
I don't know how you do it, but it seems like a good idea to me. At one point, virtually...
Anonymous says:
The stats presented in this article - that IE is still the most used browser - are kind of deceptive....
Computerworld - Google Inc. is pushing users of its Gmail e-mail service to dump Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox.
When users of IE6 reach Gmail.com, a "Get faster Gmail" message appears in the Web-based service's menu bar. The message, in turn, links to a page on Google's Web site that touts Chrome and Firefox 3 as being "twice as fast" at running Gmail.
Last week, the Gmail site also displayed the message to users browsing with Microsoft's IE7, but Google has since discarded that version of the notice. Users running other browsers, including Apple Inc.'s Safari and Opera Software ASA's namesake browser, haven't been shown the speed-up message.
Google currently lists IE7, Firefox 2.0 and later releases, Chrome and Safari as the only supported browsers for Gmail. Others, including Opera and older editions of IE, Firefox and Safari, can be used to access the e-mail service but aren't able to handle some of its features.
More than 21% of users who browsed the Internet last month ran IE6, according to Web metrics company Net Applications Inc. IE7, meanwhile, accounted for about 48% of the browser market during November, with Firefox 3 in third place with nearly 16%.
Google has been aggressively marketing Chrome since it stripped the browser of its beta label earlier this month. A day after doing so, for example, Google dropped Firefox as the default browser in its Google Pack application bundle and added Chrome in its place.
Google, Mozilla and WebKit — the open-source project that provides the engine for Apple's Safari — have spent much of the second half of this year trumpeting JavaScript performance improvements, a necessary move, they say, to make Gmail and other Web applications run at speeds similar to those of traditional desktop software.
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