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seancorfield
May 04, 2022Iron Contributor
No more Chromium updates for macOS 10.12
With the latest builds of Edge, I've started seeing a warning that there will be "no more Chromium updates" for macOS 10.12. First off, that's a bit surprising in an _Edge_ browser, exposing the unde...
- May 07, 2022In general, we follow Chromium's support for whatever platforms they're on, and both they and us continuously move up the minimum as the overall support for those platforms ends and the number of people using them dwindles. Officially, Sierra is the oldest version we currently support, and Apple ended support for it 3 years ago, so either way you probably shouldn't count on us supporting it indefinitely.
seancorfield
May 04, 2022Iron Contributor
It sounds like you replied to someone else's post because nothing in your response seems to apply to what I posted?
Here's the Chromium source file that contains that message:
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/dfb0dcea77108cba550fd41941ec941ca866a7b3/chrome/app/resources/chromium_strings_en-GB.xtb#L335
The message is in all locales.
So this is coming from upstream in Chromium itself.
What I was asking Microsoft here was whether they are planning to phase out updates of **Edge**, which is based on Chromium, for macOS 10.12, or whether they will continue updating it (and, hopefully, remove that message and check now they know about it)?
josh_bodner
May 07, 2022Former Employee
In general, we follow Chromium's support for whatever platforms they're on, and both they and us continuously move up the minimum as the overall support for those platforms ends and the number of people using them dwindles. Officially, Sierra is the oldest version we currently support, and Apple ended support for it 3 years ago, so either way you probably shouldn't count on us supporting it indefinitely.
- seancorfieldMay 07, 2022Iron ContributorThanks, josh_bodner -- that was the guidance I was looking for. A lot of software has been nagging me about my ancient macOS for a long time 🙂
Work is buying me a new Windows development machine so it's moot. After being an Apple customer for about 30 years, this is my last Apple device -- I've already switched from iPhone to Android (after many iPhones) and my laptop switched from Apple to Windows years ago.