Google Chrome updates will stop coming to some Galaxy phones - SamMobile
Google Chrome updates will stop coming to some Galaxy phones - SamMobile
Google has revealed that the next major update for Chrome will only be available on devices running Android 8.0 Oreo.
I know this site is dedicated to Samsung phones but the title could be framed better. Chrome isn't just being stopped updating for older Galaxy phones, it is being dropped for all pre Oreo Android devices, so it has a much wider reach than just Samsung.
Also, why does Opera require Android 12 as a minimum system requirement? I haven't used it on mobile but boy, they really cut off a lot of older android users.
That's a super-clickbaity way of saying they're out of their supported period.
No one on the fucking planet should be using this shitty browser anyway. Fuck Chrome, fuck everything that's Chromium-based and fuck Google and their attempts to build a monopoly on browser engines so they can blast everyone with ads and extend their surveillance network. Use a proper browser with support for proper ad-blockers like Firefox or Mull or LibreWolf on Desktop.
No, especially in this context I strongly disagree. Chromium especially when it comes to JS V8 is often faster. Not an issue when your phone is modern and fast but with Android 7 you are looking at a lot of first generation of 64 bit phones (Snapdragon 810, 808, 625, ...) and even some late 32 bit phones (Snapdragon 801, 805,...). Phones that need all the help they can get to squeeze water from stones.
However still hats off to mozilla for supporting Android 5 and 6. This way they keep a lot more phones somewhat viable, even if its not the fastest browser.
Freedom > Performance
Also, no one should be using outdated, unpatched, insecure Android 7
That's one way of trying to achieve planned obsolescence, but at the same time Android 8 is 6 years old now and I imagine the API might be too different for the devs to justify maintaining builds for it? I wonder what other browsers are still being made for Android 8, apparently Firefox?
and only Firefox. Because if Chrome stops supporting the API, so does Chromium. So Opera, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Samsung browser and a long etc will also stop supporting the older APIs too.
I would say that's going to be a relief, but I don't use chrome on anything. Hell, I only use a chromium based browser on occasion. And even that's only on mobile when I'm not going to keep it long enough to put fdroid in and install mull.
I have to use one for work. At this point that's about the extent of my use case. Chrome's attempt at www drm turned me off.