3d ago

Sunsetting Chrome support for Android 8.0 (Oreo) and Android 9.0 (Pie)

Sunsetting Chrome support for Android 8.0 (Oreo) and Android 9.0 (Pie) - Google Chrome Community

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I assume this will mean no WebView updates. Making these devices more insecure for continued use.
If someone has one on such OS. Installing firefox would be better. Although, performance would be slow.
- Firefox can't even export bookmarks, so when Mull got deprecated I had to move my hundreds of bookmarks manually to Cromite. It sucks that people whose phones are still on Android 8 are stuck with that thing.
  
  You can sync them to desktop firefox and export from there. Or sync them via firefox sync to Fennec version of firefox from fdroid.
  But, yeah firefox should do so much more for android users.
- It's very unfortunate that firefox for Android is much inferior
thats a load of bullshit considering the updates situation on android
- Android 9 released on 6th August 2018. Which is 7yrs old. It sucks but that's how it goes with software. Current breed of smartphones receive anywhere from 4-7yrs of OS updates.
  So, unless you use very outdated hardware you should be fine. My own Redmi 7a which received 1 OS update from 2019 is running android 10 which is just above the OS threshold for chrome.
  
  Current breed of smartphones receive anywhere from 4-7yrs of OS updates
  i wish 😞
  only some of the expensive ones seem to do this. i'm lucky my redmi runs lineageos well.
damn, this sucks. android 8 is like the last good version for me.. (11 is the last tolerable..)
i still haven't moved away from kiwi browser, hopefully it keeps working well as now

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