RHEL 6 no longer supported by Google Chrome

tlu · Feb 13, 2013

https://plus.google.com/112648813199640203443/posts/7LrVTf43yz8

http://www.muktware.com/5203/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-obsolete

Chrome, the browser in question here, is based on the open source project Chromium. Chromium developers seems to prefer the new C++11 for the obvious security reasons and ease of maintenance but it also means adopting a new toolchain and upgrading to GCC 4.6. This makes it hard to support those operating systems that ship with older C++ standard libraries. RHEL 6, among many others, is one such operating system.

That's the reason why such operating systems won't be supported by the newer versions of Chrome. Chrome will continue to work on such distributions but it won't get any updates for the above mentioned reasons. So, the notification WildeBoer saw was Google telling such users that their OS won't be supported unless they are upgraded to newer toolchains and GCC.
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Mrkvonic · Feb 13, 2013

Not a big deal. I do not think there's any requirement to run anything other than the basic default browser on an enterprise distro.
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