Monday, August 30, 2010

Facebook decides to put an end on IE6 support.




As we all know Internet Explorer 6 is not been used widely anymore , it  has become outdated now rather people are preferring the IE 8 version. Recently Facebook has announced that it wants to end support for  IE 6 , As lot of issues came upfront from the people  regarding the expiration of chat session while using facebook through IE 6 platform. Facebook also revealed that it wants to improve its stability and consistency for better user experience, so it has stopped supporting the outdated IE 6 browser.

About  15 months back the Internet Explorer 8 version was launched and successfully accepted by the people also it has become the worlds number one browser  in the world. It is more consistent  than any other browsers in the market , IE 6  had the weakest security point incompatible for web 2.0 platform.IE 6 is also lacking the key security barriers like prevention of data. It was easily hacked by the hackers and other malwares and spywares available on internet. Microsoft  has recently announced that it will be launching the Internet Explorer 9 beta version into the market  soon , by this facebook stated that it will no longer lack behind in updating the browsers versions so as to stay updated in the market by supporting more and more new browsers and ending support for older version of browsers.

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