Google will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and Firefox 2.0 support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year, the company said.
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Joining the no-support list includes Apple 's Safari 2.0 and Google's own Chrome 3.0.
The move will kick off sometime in early March, when Google will start scaling back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites. The search giant announced that decision two weeks after the company admitted that hackers had breached its network and stolen information via a security flaw found in the IE6 browser.
"We plan to stop supporting older browsers for the rest of the Google Apps suite, including Gmail, later in 2010," a Google spokesman confirmed today.
Google's urging users to leave IE6 is only the latest in a long line of major Web companies dropping support for the nearly-nine-year-old browser. So far, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube have publicly prompted their users to upgrade to newer versions of IE, while German and French information security agencies have echoed those calls because of critical vulnerabilities in the old application.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has endorsed Google's advice to ditch the aging browser.
"Microsoft has consistently recommended that consumers upgrade to the latest version of our browser," she said. "[But] while we recommend Internet Explorer 8 to all customers, we understand we have a number of corporate customers for whom broad deployment of new technologies across their desktops requires more planning."
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