“Many other companies have stopped supporting the older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0, including a browser that is not supported by the manufacturer company. We also begin to abandon our support, starting from the Google Docs and Google Sites,” said Rajen Sheth, Google Apps Senior Product Manager in the Google enterprise blog.

Previously, Ars Technica site release, since August 2009, Google said it would end support for IE6 YouTube service and social network, Orkut. When IE6 users visited these services, they will be warned to immediately switch to the latest browser, such as IE8, Chrome, and Firefox.

Sheth says that web technology has grown rapidly in the last ten years from the text based to interactive applications and rich with video and sound. Browsers that are too old can not run the new features. This year there would be a breakthrough in Google applications and services and they wants to ensure that all Internet users to be able to enjoy it.

“So, take advantage of the opportunity to switch to the latest available browser,” he said. Some of the recommended browsers include a minimum of Google Internet Explorer 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 and Safari 3.0.

Previously, Microsoft itself admits that IE6 is not feasible and many shortcomings that urged users to immediately switch to a newer version. the last time Microsoft released a patch to the gap in IE6 weaknesses suspected to be the door for hackers to attack the infrastructure of Google and dozens of large companies in other U.S.. However, Microsoft still provide support for IE6 patch until 8 April 2014.

So, Do you are still want to use IE6 any longer?

“Mozilla has improved its overall performance and accelerate time to run it,” said Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, as reported by Computerworld, Thursday (21/1/2010).

He said, to open a web page can now be done 20 percent faster. JavaScript on this 3.6 version is also executed 12 percent faster than with the version of Firefox 3.5.

Firefox also includes new security features that will check the plug-in in browsers such as Adobe Flash Player or Apple Quick Time so it is always been updated. Plug-ins are suspicious will not be executed, and only to be told how to do updates if desired.

In addition, this new browser also features Personas feature that lets users choose the background theme of the browser in accordance with the preferred design of an estimated 30,000 are available. Firefox 3.6 also supports the latest web technologies such as CSS, DOM, and HTML5, including fullscreen video and web for open font format (WOFF).

“Firefox offers users to manage their own experience, this is the most customizable browser and the browser is also very fast. So, overall, I think Firefox is the best complete package,” added Beltzner.

This browser is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac and can be downloaded on the Mozilla website. Firefox users can immediately upgrade to new version by doing a “check for updates” in the menu “help”.

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