We run Google Chrome as our browser of choice :-)

Looks like they are not a big fan of MS. But for the benefit of IE users, they might want to reconsider. Nevertheless, it’s up to the community to think what’s right. Let’s see what happens next ;)

- Darren at AdExcel dot Com

Simply changing the Firefox useragent with an iMacros script does not show this message:

SET !USERAGENT “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”
URL GOTO=http://www.youtube.com/
WAIT SECONDS=3

But with an original IE6 I see the message, too.

Good :D

Google please do it for search too and don’t support IE please.. kill MS browser.

I use it too. But it’s still lacking of 3rd party plugins. :|

This is huge. It’s about time some big names got behind this, it’ll be good for the whole internet.

great news!!!!!!!
Revenge is near :)))

I wonder Why there is no a suggestion for Apple Safari ?!

Darren,

It’s not MS, it’s IE6. They are still supporting other versions of IE.

YouTube had its March Madness videos on Silverlight.

Great news ! Thanks a lot YouTube !
IE6 bye bye !

Finally! IE6 is holding the web back. People who still use that on a regular basis should not be allowed to own a computer.

“…better browsers than wasting man hours on the oft-despised Microsoft browser.”

You make it sound like it’s Microsoft’s fault it is so bad. If you look at any browser that old its bad. It was good for its time.

What, no safari?

What about Safari?

Damn, beat me to it.

An IE6 user that knows how to take a screenshot? I’m amazed!

I think its important to note that this prolly doesn’t mean they’re gonna block the site for IE6 users, just they won’t be spending hours trying to reconcile the design and functionality for that browser –

which likely means people STILL won’t upgrade, they’ll limp along but the site won’t look quite as nice, maybe a couple menus will fail

This will not affect me anyway. I’m using Chrome and Firefox here.

I have IE8, FF, Chome. Icheck that it’s loaded radom on diffrent comp.

If You need other browsers You can run one from page http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/ after install FF plugin.

Can any computer that is running IE 6 even handle IE8 or FF3.5

YouTube será el proximo en decir adios a Internet Explorer 6 (ENG)…

Google dejará de soportar IE 6 en Youtube, cuando se entre con este navegador aparecerá un mensaje pidiendo la actualización a navegadores mas avanzados como firefox, opera, safari o chrome. Youtube se une así a otras webs importantes que ya han de…

What’s the stats for IE6 users on techcrunch.com?

They can only feasibly include so many browsers. What about Opera, Camino, and Flock? Looks to me as though they chose the two most popular browsers (IE and Firefox) and added Google’s own browser (hey, you have to push your own stuff, right?).

So what’s next after that?

This has been showing up on YouTube for well over a week now, before the Digg article came out.

why not opera? or any of the other tiny browsers? they could only choose a few browser to display, and the chose these three.

Firefox: very customizable
Internet Explorer: sounds familiar to IE users
Google Chrome: very fast
Safari: also very fast

so, you have 4 different browsers, with all different “specialties”. except for chrome and safari, who both have the same specialty.
youtube being owned by google, what browser would you think they choose of those two, their own browser, or apple’s browser?

that’s why there is no suggestion for safari

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There’s no Safari because Apple users can’t see that message , because they can’t have ie6, obviously)

i think all main stream website should stop supporting IE 6, so people will be forced to not use it, IE 6 should be killed.

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[...] the giant youtube are walking in the same direction. With the latest banner shown at the site, youtube is giving a sign to the people who still using IE6 to upgrade their [...]

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[...] Best news ever You Tube will be turning off support for IE 6 soon. [...]

I got the same message on one of my computers with I.E 6 installed. I never upgraded it because i use firefox and Opera.

True this only affects I.E 6. Which is really old, newer versions of I.E will still be supported.

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

Major Web sites like YouTube and Digg are dropping IE6 support…

……

Nice, but what about opera ? They don’t support opera browser ?

You are my favourite Internet user today.

I keep IE on my computer only for those sites that don’t support firefox. IE only serves the purpose to occupy the efforts of security hackers. Beyond that I don’t have much use for it.

Who.
Cares.

Seriously, IE6? Get real. MOVE ON!

I am sure that Google Chrome will rock the spot, but until they release it for Mac, Safari 4 is the bomb!

There is Safari for Windows

THANK YOU GOOGLE!!!!!!! Dang I hate writing for IE6 Die!

This won’t affect us either. We are also only using Chrome and Firefox.

How about something better? Make it a law that they need to download a newer web browser?

Some people may not feel comfortable changing-or may not even know how to change it (like my mom, “why point the arrow there, why not here or here”. Older people may not use a computer everyday-but if they want one-what’s wrong with that?

Is this really a big deal though? I want to see ie6 abolished as much as the next guy, but aren’t most people who use ie6 large companies that are invested in NOT upgrading there browsers? how many people using ie6, will actually care about youtube AND are actually can do anything about upgrading their browser?

Agreed. This should have happened 7 years ago.

Probably because it displays the message using Microsoft’s proprietary markup. This is not going to be supported by Firefox even if you send different User Agent data.

Heh…I actually gave an example of the markup but the comment filtered it out. It’s HTML comments around [IF IE6]…

However, it’s Microsoft’s fault for not taking enough initiative to convince people to upgrade to IE8 (and IE7 at one point)…

Perfect example, look at Firefox, it has a built in updater program to constantly keep FF at it’s latest version.

Sure, IE6 is kinda before that whole “auto-update” thing, but still.

Whose fault is it then?

IE6, whether or not it was bad for its time (and I do think it was) caused no end of problems because MS stopped developing it once they had most of the market share. This was undeniably Microsoft’s fault, and the resulting stagnation is still causing a massive pain in the ass for any website owner still having to support it today. Ask anyone who makes websites and they will tell you the same thing.

Good bye IE6, as a web developper, you made my life painfull, made me scream, cry, break things, hate my job….

Because of you, I had to code twice, 1 time for browsers and 1 time for you, dear IE6.

Because of your security holes when you launches, millions of computers got infected with trojan, spyware or let’s call them IE6ware.

Your older brothers IE7 was a relief and IE8 a resurrection. (Still have work to do on the JS engine speed… lots of work)

RIP IE6… actually, burn in hell.. ;)

PS. Thanks to Microsoft for their effort to make IE8 a full compliant browser. Really appreciated. Times have changed…

Simon

kill IE8 too .. it’s the same shit as other IE versions

Safari 3 is supported on PC and is actually very good. It uses the same fondations as Google Chrome (webkit) with a different GUI and JS engine.

This makes no sense. I can tell you at EchoSign we have over 900,000 users and while Chrome is strong (at >2%), and Safari is big (>5%) … still more of our users use IE 6.0 than all of Firefox. It’s a reality of corporations (with locked down PCs and tightened budgets) if not consumers. If you don’t care about corporations, stopping support for IE 6 makes sense. If you do, it’s a non-issue.

Of course “they” are not. They are Google and therefore obviously not a friend of MS.

I feel a lot more comfortable ignoring IE6 when developing websites for new clients now that giants like Google and Digg are jumping off the bandwagon.

If only Microsoft had done better with IE8…

Booooo …. Google turning Evil!

Agreed. It’s pretty awful. What kills me the most is that I have a hard time viewing and testing locally stored web pages (like, say, clients’ websites in development on my hard drive) because there’s some weird issue with the “file:///” prefix.

I mean, I’ll give them this: they did fix some things. But somewhere along the way, they screwed up things that were already fine. It’s so frustrating.

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I have a lot of users on one of my websites who use IE6. I once built a CSS-only menu for this site from scratch but it didn’t work in IE6. The website in question is not corporate and is geared toward teens and twenty-somethings — many of which are using their parents’ or secondhand computers.

I think, for the most part, most companies have upgraded (especially as they upgrade their computers and OS software, since we all know how Microsoft will force the latest browser with new upgrades and machines). You’ll probably see more schools and libraries with IE6, rather than corporations, because they are nonprofits and don’t have the funds necessary to upgrade to newer machines.

Amen!

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I use Chrome for our web app that we use at the office, but the caching problem it inherits from WebKit is _VERY_ annoying. Despite every header necessary saying to not cache, sometimes AJAX queries are cached.

Double amen!

“Your older brothers IE7 was a relief and IE8 a resurrection.”
… don’t you mean younger brothers? :D

I guess this article is more for web developers than users. We have to develop websites that work in all browsers being used — and for a while IE6 was still included in that list. Now that web giants like Google and Digg are moving on, so can we. So it really only matters to us, because now we don’t have to work as hard to make a website function properly.

It also matters, a little, to regular users; now that YouTube and Digg won’t be spending time and money coding for IE6, they can put that time and money into better features that you can enjoy. So in a way, you do benefit from this even if you’re not a web developer! (:

Got my vote

You have a great point there. But if the Google stops supporting IE6… Mwahaha!

get out of here… IE8 is a step in the right direction…

This is HUGE. IE6 probably increased my front-end development time by 25% whereas things just worked most other places. Happy to see this turd go the way of the dodo.

Good things to come in the future.

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Usually not, which poses a problems for users and nonprofits who can’t afford to upgrade to newer machines. Hopefully as the economy strengthens and prices come down, we’ll see less and less IE6 use on the user end.

Personally, I’m not worried about IE6 anymore. I’ve been testing on it less and less, so now I won’t even bother.

It is an issue because you spend twice the amount of time, effort and money getting a web application that works fine on every web browser imaginable to work with IE6.

Most corporations that are locked to IE6 will probably block youtube anyway!

Besides, this warning isn’t saying they’re going to switch off access to IE6 users, it’s saying they are phasing out support. It may actually still “work” for months or years to come.

Don’t care about corporations?! This will force them to get off their lazy asses and upgrade (for free mind you) Huge improvements have happened in browser tech over that time.

IE6 is now how old? 8 years?

How is this “booooo”? This is the best news imaginable!

yup

This is a major step in the right direction for Youtube, as well as for the entire internet community. With a website as widespread and well known as Youtube directing IE6 users to modern web browsers, this could be the beginning of IE6′s long-awaited downfall. Other websites are sure to follow suite.

Microsoft’s failure to take action and shift it’s Internet Explorer users to newer versions of the web browser is largely responsible for keeping IE6 afloat. They should have made an attempt a long time ago to keep their users updated to the latest version of the software.

The recent Windows auto updates that helped install Internet Explorer 8 on computers everywhere may have contributed to the cause, but help was far overdue. When IE6 was released in 2001 there were no complaints. But as the internet evolved and more modern web browsers were released in following years, things had to change. Despite the constant uproar from the online community action was not taken against IE6, even as newer versions were released.

Lolwut.

Exactly. We’re going to see IE6 phase out completely, but we’ve still got a ways to go. This is definitely a start, and a flag — at least for me — to stop designing with IE6 in mind.

We should still include HTML/text only links in footers, just to be on the safe side (and for good SEO practice). But as for worrying about how my main menu and other Web 2.0 items look? Not anymore, at least not for IE6.

… to hell.

This is a major step in the right direction for Youtube, as well as for the entire internet community. With a website as widespread and well known as Youtube directing IE6 users to modern web browsers, this could be the beginning of IE6′s long-awaited downfall. Other websites are sure to follow suite.

Safari mainly is and always should be only used on a Mac, IE6 wouldn’t be a problem. Maybe it’s due to the Googacheif being butted from the Apple Board?

Kill IE8. that’s too difficult, just kill all of the IE.

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I saw a good doc on Yahoo’s strategy on this, which was “current version of supported browsers and one major version back. This isn’t that different from dropping IE 5.5 support when IE 7 shipped. My employer is also considering this, for similar reasons.

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+1 one on removing IE6 support.

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This should have been done long ago. I hate IE6!

IE6 is a super Star ! Everyone talk about it …

How could tightened budgets be a reason? Upgrading is free, and all the alternatives are free.

Yeah, but this is not really a big change, as the environments that are stuck with IE6 because of company policies also have YouTube (and similar sites) banned anyways.

I just checked youtube in IE6 and see the same message in the screenshot. This is great news. Also, there are THREE mentions of chrome on youtubes’s homepage, not just google. I also checked digg and it looks like they aren’t displaying any message about dropping support and I was still able to digg the IE6 rumor article, from IE6. Maybe they will pull the trigger as well with YouTubes recent move.

ps, I have screenshots as well.

Finally! Now all we need is Bing announcing the same thing… ;)

popurls.com // popular today…

story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

^this.

Its about time the bigger companies spread their opinion on browsers to the masses :)

At last the huge portals are taking action on this, good for them, the developers and the final users!

Thank god for this. Microsoft should force mandatory updates for its cavemen customers still using ie6.

http://twitpic.com/ac58r

If you kill IE, you all will have to find a new browser to hate, I guess that will be Chrome.

Guys, what exactly are you not happy with when watching videos on youtube with IE6? Does this service actualy demand any more than plain old IE5?

Because .001% of users are using Safari.

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yeah u r right…dese problms are really dere

hahahaha…i hope google ll do dis soon

I just ran IE6 from virtualbox and opened youtube, and yes I got the same warning. This is amazing, I feel like celebrating :)

Noooooooo! IE6 has many advantages. It can render gif animation fast. It also the ability to download spyware fast!

good news….thnx youtube… IE6 bye-bye

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very nice choice…. me too use chrome

is it reaaly so??

right dear….me also think so

How about people with slow computers with little memory in other parts of the world stuck with IE6?

Awesome, in conjunction with Digg and other major companies doing the same thing it finally looks like this is the beginning of the end for IE6.

all the google ads on this page is plastered with Chrome ads

I like Opera and Chrome. Although FF has the hottest add-ons / extensions. I use theme all.. except IE any version. IE SUCKS BALLS.

ie6 it’s terrible! i would like more ‘big boys’ engage on this campain!

Wouldn’t it be good if they added a big orange banner at the top saying: we’re proud supporters of http://www.bringdownie6.com . Thanks YouTube, for saying no to IE6

They’re not a big fan of MS because that’s their biggest competitor. Google is actually being very cool about the whole thing, they could have simply state to upgrade to Chrome, but they actually display all 3 big browsers. (Too bad there’s no Opera.)

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Ah, nivana… God only knows how many hours and nerves I’ve lost trying to make things work in IE6.

I do realise that YouTube won’t be shut off for IE6 users but most of non-tech users out there seing the message will do the trick.

Besides, I’ll have my own satisfaction when my company stops supporting that crappy software. And now they have the ability.

I love you YouTube more than I already did.

IE6 is a joke :)

Interesting, didn’t know there was an overlap of users who know how to take a screenshot and still use IE6

The main reason they want you to install Chrome or Firefox is that GOOGLE SEARCH is default on those. They threw in IE just for shits.

Because they should download Firefox or Chrome on their low-memory computers.

Or just use a text-only browser.

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What…are you talking about?

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hahahaha – me either, that must be one interesting group of people.

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I wonder if it will be temporary? IE6 still carries it’s massive user-base, and swf-object still supports it. Might just be using their extremely popular site to promote their browser. Web developers may be seen singing the sound of music, if users really switch.

Then again corp’s may enjoy their users not on youtube :)

why do you use it??

I used Anti IE6 scripts from google code to block IE users to my website.

After few months considered about traffic and removed it, else i may continue the same. ;) This turn by youtube is appreciated.

Chrome – is not a bad browser, and compare to safari or ie6, chrome really rocks.

Cheers !

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Exactly! Why do you think so many people still use IE6? It’s because IE7/8 are still crap. Better crap, maybe, but still crap.

How many people do you know who upgraded to IE7 and then rolled back to IE6? I know a lot. I think the lack of adoption to a newer IE argument is misplaced.

Chrome’s whole existence is not to compete with FF/Safari/et.al., but to eradicate IE (and it’s disregard for standards) from the planet.

Youtube works real well in lynx.

Please! stop IE6 it is a nightmare to design or adapt CSS designs to IE6. All browsers have issues with standards but IE6 is the worst case. Besides, it is too old and has endless layers of patches on it. It is time to go IE6.

people saying safari and opera, <those will most likely still work with youtube and be supported by youtube, after all those 3 browsers are just suggestions, so its not that big of deal really, its just awesome there dropping IE6.. man all websites and users should drop it also

Obviously Google Chrome would be on the top and many times. Google owns the world, including YouTube. Hail Almighty Google!

I’ll have to get my local Library to upgrade. This is finally something that’ll force them to do it.

It only makes sense for them to discontinue support for it, IE6 is two versions behind. They also may be implementing features that just won’t work in IE6.

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Yes, upgrading the browser is free, but not upgrading all the enterprise applications that do not support anything more than IE 6 without upgrading. Anybody try to do a “free” upgrade to Peoplesoft, JD Edwards or Oracle EBusiness Suite lately?.

I work at a $7B corporation, and they don’t block sites just because they COULD be “time wasters”, they only block objectionable material (although sometimes the definition of that is questionable).

There is no such thing as a free browser upgrade when you are talking about a company that depends on software that costs millions to implement or upgrade.

“Who in The Ham Sandwich” still uses ie6.

IE 6 is the scourge of the web and everyone who can has a moral obligation to switch – it is really holding up innovation. If you are an employee and your company forces you to use it at work it’s their fault but otherwise everyone should really switch. Everything will be faster and better.

There’s nothing Anti-Microsoft about it.

YouTube probably wants to implement features that would break in IE6. Good to see they won’t be held back.

It is definitely corporate browsers propping IE6 up. Looking at our site traffic, on Monday morning we see a large jump of IE6 and a drop in IE8 traffic.

especially when they decided to enter the os market and chrome is the baby.

but i still like chrome. next to kill, opera.

Firefox is the best option!

[...] Youtube ha decidido cargarse a IE6, bloqueando el acceso a su Web a los que todavía usen ese navegador, y promocionando otros navegadores más modernos, como Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5 o simplemente Internet Explorer 8. [...]

tested with ietester (with ie6) and it’s right.
IE6 is a mess

And there were celebrations throughout the new republic!!!!!! :)

Actually, I think this will help Microsoft as well won’t it. Most IE6 users will upgrade to IE8.

There is of course a chance that as part of the upgrade process some users may switch.

But if a popular site such as YouTube is asking users to upgrade, then it only helps Microsoft, because a lot of users will be voluntarily upgrading to their latest browser because they want to continue watching videos

Why stop just at YouTube? Google should put up the same message on their main search site Google.com and convert the remaining holdouts of IE6 users to Chrome.

This is genius on Google’s part in the new browser wars!

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[...] TechCrunch reported that YouTube was to drop support for Microsoft (MSFT)’s archaic browser Internet Explorer 6. YouTube issued a notice to IE6 [...]

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Are you guys against Microsoft products

[...] Update, July 14, 2009: It looks like some big names on the web, namely Digg.com and now YouTube.com are publicizing plans to drop IE 6 support: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye [...]

Hmm… I have been using Opera from last 5 or 6 years. And, I have been wondering why YouTube does not work in my Opera. Now, I got to know from your screenshot that they don’t support Opera.

Thanks,
I will not switch to any other browser.

[...] Segundo o StatCounter, hoje o Internet Explorer 6 ainda é usado por cerca de 20% da população mundial. Ele é o terceiro navegador mais popular, atrás apenas do IE7 (~28%) e Firefox 3 (~23%). Esse movimento do Google certamente forçará muita gente a migrar para uma versão mais atual do IE, ou mesmo trocar de navegador. Bom para todos: (ex-)usuários do IE6, que terão uma experiência de navegação mais refinada e segura, e desenvolvedores, que cada vez mais precisarão preocupar-se menos com o IE6 e suas aberrações na renderização de páginas. Fonte: TechCrunch. [...]

“Can any computer that is running IE 6 even handle IE8 or FF3.5″

Some can, some can’t. IE 6 shipped as the Microsoft OS default browser in the fall of 2001 and continued until the release of Vista in January of 2007.

So, that’s a broad range of machines that came bundled with IE 6.

In late 2001 and early 2002, the Pentium 4 and Athlon chips on new machines ranged from 1.4 to 2.2 GHz and most machines were configurable with between 128-512 MB of RAM.

The higher end of those machines can certainly run Firefox. The lower end would probably struggle.

If you look at 2003 and 2004, most of those desktop machines can run Firefox without problems and many latops.

By 2005 and 2006, I’d say there’s really no problem except for the lowest spec laptops.

- A

Thank goodness. I’m sure it’s a matter of cost vs benefit for them. The development cost of supporting IE6′s archaic problems vs the benefit of users who still use IE6 is probably relatively low.

Firefox and opera are the best browsers..

OMG Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *tears of joy and amusement*

I said this back when XP SP3 came out, that Microsoft should have just made IE7 a mandatory upgrade as part of the install. Microsoft could fix this issue, but instead they chose the ignore it an hope it’ll just go away tact and the rest of the world has to suffer for it.

hahaha, thats great!

FIREFOX IS BETTER

Thank god… It’s about time they kissed it goodbye. The only people who use IE6 are on WinNT or 2000 machines at work; they shouldn’t be watching YouTube there anyway.

Good for Google!

Wow, you have no idea. Safari makes up over 8% of the browser market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers. Like Stefan said, Safari and Chrome use the same rendering engine, so it makes sense for Google/YouTube to push their own browser using this technology.

It is too bad that Opera doesn’t ever get any good referrals like this, but then, they command a very small percentage of the desktop browser market (< 1%), but they are huge in the mobile market. Oh well.

My preference is:

Windows: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE
Mac: Firefox, Safari, Opera

Firefox is just too useful with plugins, I prefer the webkit rendering engine on Mac, but it just isn’t quite ready on Windows, so Opera is nice.

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Here here

This is only a half-truth. The reason for slow corporate adoption is because many enterprise (read: crap) web-based systems only support IE6. Goliaths like Oracle and SAP fail hard at building their apps using standards-compliant code. And it costs too much for their customers to upgrade their enterprise systems. So IE 6 will live in corporate environments for much longer.

Not a problem for YouTube though. While corporate users do watch YouTube videos, it isn’t of their primary concern.

If I see what I can do with Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 then IE8 is already a fossile.

Windows Updates automatically upgrades to IE8, but lot of companies have centralized updates where they can choose not to have it. They are doing it because of legacy applications do not work on newer browser. IE8 should have some IE6 mode also which user can select for such apps.

[...] acordo com uma nota publicada no blog TechCrunch, o YouTube pode deixar em breve de funcionar no navegador Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Uma captura de [...]

Burn in hell, IE6!

“Exactly! Why do you think so many people still use IE6? It’s because IE7/8 are still crap. Better crap, maybe, but still crap.”

Except that you’re completely and totally wrong with this assertion. The people who remain IE 6 users don’t know how or aren’t able to update their browser. A very large portion of them are in enterprises with locked down systems and explicit upgrade cycles. Another good chunk are on systems that won’t run newer versions of IE. And finally, there are some that just don’t know what a browser is or why it matters.

Your suggestion that IE 6 users are making an informed decision to stay on IE 6 is simply and completely wrong.

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Check out the “IE Tab” Firefox plug-in. You can specify sites that will run in a IE tab based on whatever IE you have installed. I used to have to use it back when Netflix streaming only supported IE.

Kill Opera next?

You mean kill the fully standards-compliant, fast, secure, feature-rich browser that is responsible for many of the innovations you see in Firefox and Chrome?

The reason they want to kill IE6 is because it’s NOT standards compliant and they have to spend lots of time (as do most web developers) writing ugly workarounds to get it to work with their site.

Opera 9/10 will render any standards-compliant modern website perfectly, at least as well as Safari or Chrome.

I don’t even use Opera, I use FF and Chrome mainly – but your comment displayed ignorance that I could not ignore.

I would like to see Firefox 3.5 before IE8 (in the screenshot they are ordered Chrome, IE8, FF3.5).

I can understand Youtube for putting Chrome first since YT is owned by Google, but putting IE8 second is deceiving.

The good thing is that this is only a screenshot.

In a nutshell, this is very good news for web developers and web users.

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Cool I’ve just made a post on It and I add a little code for that:
http://jerusalemstyle.com/blog/dropping-ie6-no-more-ie6-support-appeal-webmasters-revolution-20090714-38

[...] to TechCrunch this morning, YouTube is phasing out support for IE6. They don’t state an exact date and time, but they are warning users to download a modern [...]

[...] YouTube va a eliminar proximamante el soporte a IE6. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

[...] that bastion of wasted work hours, is terminating support for IE6.  I can only join in the giant chorus of [...]

You are kidding right, Chrome isn’t memory efficient

“very nice choice…. me too use chrome”

Did a bunch of YouTube commenters come over to weigh in on this one? :)

It would be nice if their JavaScript improves a bit.

But not on Windows, Safari on Windows is really small. And as this is IE6, their is only IE6 for windows.

But not all IE 6 users are using it in such environments. If you look at hourly browser usage tracking data for evenings or daily tracking data for weekends, you’ll see that IE 6 usage is pretty strong during hours when people aren’t at work.

My estimate is that IE 6 usage doesn’t even fall in half during not-working hours/days.

If more than half of the current IE 6 users are using it at home, there’s a chance this will have some impact.

Now, some of those people at home are on systems that haven’t and won’t prompt them to update to IE 7 or IE 8 because they’re too old, like Windows 2K, ME, and 98.

Still, I’d wager that the majority of home users on IE 6 are on XP have not enabled Windows Update so they’re not getting pressured to upgrade. A YouTube notice might convince them to get a browser outside of the Windows Update system.

FOR CUNTS!

BAM!

I can tell you who… web developers like me who have to, in some way, keep IE6 around for testing. I fired up my own Win2k virtual machine and sure enough, there it was.

And let me add, it was beautiful.

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How the Google AD$ are working for you journali$t at TechCrunch!?

It seams like chrome is paying a lot of ad$ for the tech-journali$t this days!

I wonder how much time will take to people start seeing the “do no evil” corporation for what it really is!

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Safari on Windows makes up ab out one half of one percent of browser usage. That’s not quite as awesome as Opera’s three quarters of one percent of browser usage.

because this is an appeal to _Windows_ users and Safari on Window isn’t a popular option.

[...] Youtube to end support for Internet Explorer 6 [...]

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

Ha, just today I announced that Nozbe 2.0 will also drop IE6 support.

I have like 5% of IE6 users – it’s not worth optimizing for them and sacrificing great Javascript speed and features for the rest 95%.

And anyway, they can always use Nozbe “Classic” (the current interface).

Here’s my IE6 announcement:

http://Nozbe.com/i/2

Now it feels great to have Google on my side :-)

totally agree! but it speaks for safari, that chrome for mac still hasn’t been released (as far as google tries to beat the benchmarks to get positive PR).

[...] suporte ao browser o Youtube teve que atrasar diversas atualizações e evoluir a passos lentos. [ Techcrunch ] tweetmeme_url = [...]

too bad at work our stupid IT department makes us use IE 6. LAME. Oh and I know how to take a screen shot!

[...] l’annonce que Youtube va bientôt ne plus supporter Internet Explorer 6 (cf http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ ), nous pouvons que nous réjouir du fait que pour bientôt, nous non plus, dans nos développement [...]

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“Nevertheless, it’s up to the community to think what’s right.”

The “community” has no idea of what’d be possible if IE 6 (and 7) had disappear, and how fast their favourite websites could evolve.

[...] tenia información sobre esto que cometan en TechCrunch, pero al parecer Youtube no es el primero en dar el gran paso, al parecer Digg también lo [...]

I really doubt that Chrome (or Safari) aren’t memory efficient. Do you rely on Mozilla’s propaganda ? Because their “studies” on memory consumption are absolutely pointless.
Look at what Safari is capable on the low memory iPhone 3G and tell me it’s not managing memory efficiently. Same for Chrome on Android.

“Opera 9/10 will render any standards-compliant modern website perfectly, at least as well as Safari or Chrome.”
Definitly no. Chrome and Safari are miles ahead Opera. Do some serious testing as a developer and you’ll realize this old reputation is not connected to the reality anymore (except for HTML 5 forms).

What? She makes perfect sence to me.

“It is too bad that Opera doesn’t ever get any good referrals like this, but then, they command a very small percentage of the desktop browser market (< 1%), but they are huge in the mobile market. Oh well.”

Opera is small in the mobile market too.
Oh yeah, you mean it’s installed on a lot of phones ? Right, but people don’t use it on this king of phones.
Look at this :
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-US-monthly-200812-200906
4% of the US market.
about 25% worldwide but that’s because there are still a lot of older phones in the rest of the world. In Europe, the iPhone is strong.
I’m pretty sure that in the next years, Chrome will be #1 for mobile browsing. It couldn’b be with only one HTC but with a few dozen on the market…
Still, energy consumption (price too of course) is more or less important depending of the countries, and there won’t be smartphones everywhere very soon.
Anyway, comfortable browsing requires a smartphone.

I hate IE6 with every fiber of my being and put up messages on a number of sites for IE6 users for over 4 years now…

One thing I’ve learned is that IE6 is NOT THE USER’S FAULT for using it. The main reason that IE6 still exists is because of corporate IT depts and Windows Vista for sucking. IT depts are still installing Win XP SP2 on workstations and guess what browser is the default? IE6.

Often the IT dept won’t allow employees to install their own software so users can’t put Firefox on their work computer. Its a huge fucking mess and IE6 will never go away until IT depts upgrade the OS they install on company workstations, which according to reports won’t even happen under Windows 7.

Lets hope to god Chrome does something about this…

[...] Youtube dejará de soportar IE6 By Roberto Chávez El portal más popular de streaming de video, Youtube, dejará de dar soporte para el navegador Internet Explorer 6. [...]

It’s been a great time.
Goodbye ie6. R.I.P

[...] Via TechCrunch [...]

I sent the screenshot. Dont think there are many techcrunch readers that use ie6 by choice.

The pc wasnt mine, and i was very happy to learn this because i know the pain of developing for ie6. Hope more large websites follow soon.

http://www.ticalo.com

[...] información: TechCrunch Posts Relacionados Delutube: Visualiza videos borrados en YouTubeChermenin YouTube Downloader: [...]

now killing all of IE will be more difficult since you have to kill IE8 too which you admitted “too difficult.”

“If you kill IE, you all will have to find a new browser to hate, I guess that will be Chrome.” from Nick

i totally agree perhaps they will hate firefox too.

i love safari its also fast but i am having problems on downloading files somehow safari freezes during transfer of file from temp folder to selected download folder. has anyone experienced this?

i agree with this. ppl need to upgrade to the latest version. now killing all IE version will not be easy because there are a number of websites out there that are optimized on IE and best viewed in IE. killing IE will make these companies (some are big) to modify their sites which entail cost and man power which these companies are not willing to expend. kill IE supporters will have to lobby this for your cause to be successful which i doubt you will.

IE is not that bad. there are lots of security holes on it because there a lots of people looking for it and its all because its the dominant browser out there. if firefox was the dominant it would have been plague with viruses too.

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@Jerry: Safari 4 (Final and the Beta) uses 100% RAM on my computer (Win Vista). I don’t see how anyone can use it if it destroys your CPU.

not even a full step, probably 1/50 of a step

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When you say “browser”, don’t you mean Yahoo!?

;)

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[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly (tags: ie6 browsers google youtube) [...]

[...] Kalango 2:37 am De acordo com uma nota publicada no blog TechCrunch, o YouTube pode deixar em breve de funcionar no navegador Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Uma captura [...]

As a developer…yah! As somebody who is stuck with IE6 at work…boo! :)

[...] TechCrunch cites that YouTube is trying to follow in Digg’s footsteps where it recently expressed interest in dropping support for the legacy browser. “Digg’s User Experience Architect Mark Trammell at the time wrote that the site is strongly considering removing essential features like digging and commenting for IE6 users. He explained that while IE6 users make up around 5% of site traffic, it only accounts for 1% of diggs, buries, and comments.” [...]

I am a software developer and have written close to a million lines of mission-critical code in my lifetime and IE6 not only works for people who have their pc updated, who have a decent firewall & updated av and who know what they’re doing, it is the least invasive when it comes to the UI. It HAS to be supported on millions of PCs. Many people just do not have the time to spend switching software configurations around. Firefox is very configurable yes if you have the hours to spend installing the latest version every ten months, configuring, configuring, configuring. The rest of us have things to do other than play games with uninstalling, installing, uninstalling, installing, repeat. What part of software changes too frequently, is abandoned too soon, and is released too often do you not understand? Too many people think CHANGE is the latest buzzword. An UPDATED version of IE6 is a little over four years old at this point. You are saying that software is obsolete after four years? Bzzzt. Wrong. Backward compatibility is a responsibility that is often ignored. “Why not switch or upgrade to a browser that’s…” Why not stop nagging me about a browser that’s updated and WORKS. How ’bout users focus on basics like video that contains STEREO audio (many are not) and developers focus on the ability to RESIZE the video playback window & basic persistent web-based video player brightness/contrast controls before complaining about browser version. We all know google is 90% hard liberal. IE6 is a minority. I thought liberals believed in minority rights. Oh, not when it comes to IE6. Riggght. Youtube alternatives!

Well, I am really feel uncomfortable by using IE 6 (I believe most of the web developers have the same feeling). Most of the time, I stick to use Firefox, because of the plugins I needed.

That is one of the best news that will my heart beat faster and bring a big smile to my face! I hate Internet Explorer and do not know why it is not just forbidden?! Too sad, that Safari and Opera are not mentioned as also well working and great browsers.

Maybe there is something wrong with your installation. I am using a Mac and works absolutely and insanely great and the same on my dad’s PC.

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A lot of users are using Chrome. I am certainly not going on Firefox 3.5 these days because of the recent exploit of some vulnerability in the browser. ZDNet recommends disabling JavaScript and I’m not giving up JS… Btw, I use Chrome.

I am very much delighted by this news… I hope gradually everyone take off their support to IE6 (buggiest browser ever).

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

[...] web sites are finally saying “no” to IE6 compatibility. Today, YouTube seems to have stopped supporting the decrepit browser. Music to my [...]

[...] 01:27 am: Bonne nouvelle; Youtube ne supportera plus IE6: Lien ici. [...]

the model around it seems to deliberately wantto do away with plugins browsers. I’ve learnt to use google gadgets for some of the plugin uses was used to on FF… for some things gadgets just wont do though.

wondering why Google is doing this. We;ve waited long enough. Its keeping chrome from being of much use to a lot of people who hate change pains

[...] blow to IE6’s Solar [...]

anyway youtube is not making money, chuck users. at least use it to promote chrome…

i don’t know why, but i love IE6, I’ve just un-installed my IE7 and trying to restore to IE6, i use Mozilla for internet and IE6 for intranet..

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I can only wish everybody else dropped the IE6 support as well 8)

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Points taken Mike and Lennie, but the point is this guy is acting like Opera should be next in line to “kill” after IE6, despite the fact that it’s still light-years ahead of IE7 and even IE8, and ranks just below FF/Chrome/Safari.

[...] si vede dallo screenshot sopra, (che non è mio ma l’ho preso da Techcrunch), sembra che la casa di Mountain View stà gradualmente abbandonando il supporto ad Internet [...]

Disagree. It’s much safer for IE6 users to keep it and install Firefox alongside. There must be some reason why they’ve stuck with IE6, and If they replace it with IE8 then they are stuffed if they need an IE6-only intranet site or plug-in.

[...] TechCrunch Comments (0) var addthis_pub = [...]

[...] Explorer 6 su YouTube ha le ore contate. Almeno secondo quanto segnalato da un lettore di TechCrunch che si è visto sparare in viso il messaggio che vedete qui sopra, secondo il quale presto la [...]

@ianmcnaught makes a good point. I have no choice but to use IE6 at work, where youTube and a host of other streaming media sites are blocked by the company’s web filters. A recent survey at Digg revealed that the No. 1 reason for not upgrading to IE7/8 was a company policy that forbade them to do it on their work computers.

[...] Screenshot by Techcrunch [...]

[...] YouTube will soon be dropping support for IE6. Read about it here, or [...]

Seriously? IE6 users can take screenshots?

[...] Explorer 6 su YouTube ha le ore contate. Almeno secondo quanto segnalato da un lettore di TechCrunch che si è visto sparare in viso il messaggio che vedete qui sopra, secondo il quale presto la [...]

[...] just read this news over at TechCrunch, that YouTube apparently will soon stop supporting Internet Explorer 6! Users of IE 6 have begun [...]

No-one’s stopping you from using IE6 – it’s not like someone will burst into your house and erase it from your computer. You can be blissful in your early-2000s bubble but the rest of the world wants to move forward.

P.S. It was updated with security fixes four years ago and then again just last year – but you can’t call it a 1-year old browser because of that. The criticism against it is that it doesn’t support modern features of the web, and the 8-year old technology behind it was not changed in any of the updates. Call it a 1-year old browser if you will but the technology behind it is considerably older than that.

[...] YouTube phasing out support for IE6 unfortunately, most IE6 users simply can’t upgrade Tags: code, geek comic, ie6, Internet, microsoft, movies, office space, tech, webcomic [...]

This is real…I was using IE 6 on a recently formatted computer and this bar does come up.

[...] Finally the big companies kiss IE6 support goodbye – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

It just goes to show you how dumb and lazy a lot of PC users are!

Ae you kidding me Chrome is way not secure… It’s like opening up a port and advertising on it!

[...] is thinking of stoping (or blocking ) IE6. YouTube is phasing out support. See also The slow death of IE 6 support; YouTube and browser [...]

[...] anuncia em seu blog que pretende parar de dar suporte ao IE6. Do outro lado, o site Techcrunch anuncia que o Youtube deixará de desenvolver para o IE6 e estimula os usuários a atualizarem seus [...]

This just made my day. It’s about time. They have to draw the line somewhere.

Windows, Linux or Mac, whatever I’m using at the moment, Firefox is my default browser of choice. With the right extensions it blocks all ads, be they flash, javascript or even adsense on gmail. No other browser comes close. I’ve got Chrome, Safari, Opera and the Ironbrowser are all fast but they don’t block ads like Firefox. And don’t me started on how IE of any flavor is the superhighway to infection thanks to active x.

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye "Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don’t have Internet Explorer 6 installed on my computer, so I can’t verify this first hand, but illogical it seems not and a simple Twitter search shows multiple people confirming the news. Heck, some are even downright ecstatic over the news." I am totally ecstatic, maybe YouTube will get a decent design. (tags: youtube google internet ie6 browsers) [...]

[...] Youtube et Digg abandonnent Internet Explorer 6 et Microsoft prend peur. Pour rappel, IE6 fête son 8e anniversaire. Si vous ou un de vos proches roule encore sur ce navigateur Web, penser à passer à rejoindre le mouvement.   [...]

[...] We’ve been pushing for the death of Internet Explorer 6 here for some time. So it’s with great joy that I see Google pushing the death with this banner on YouTube. Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don’t have Internet Explorer 6 installed on my computer, so I can’t verify this first hand, but illogical it seems not and a simple Twitter search shows multiple people confirming the news. Heck, some are even downright ecstatic over the news. YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye [...]

[...] Here’s the link to the original posting at TechCrunch – click here [...]

One step forward in the right direction. Way to go, guys!

[...] momento ni YouTube ni Google se han pronunciado al respecto confirmando que abandona el soporte a IE6, aunque es lógico que el gigante de internet también tenga en cuenta a los desarrolladores que [...]

[...] blogosphere was abuzz and Twiter a-twitter about Digg pondering dropping support for IE6 and now YouTube showing an ‘update your IE as we won’t support you in the future’ [...]

IE is the only browser that we worry about incremental versions. As a web developer, i will be very happy when IE6 is gone. This a step in the right direction. If you are a die hard IE fan, you should just get the latest and greatest version of IE.

[...] Looks like YouTube is asking IE6 users to upgrade.  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

[...] Goodbye, IE6… don’t let the door hit ya, where the good lord split ya. That damn browser has caused so many more hours of frustration. var addthis_pub = ‘furiousball’; var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; [...]

[...] Youtube vai deixar de dar suporte ao IE6. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fzero7.org%2Fxmadd%2F2009%2F07%2F14%2Fcomemore-voce-tambem-2%2F’; [...]

[...] (info via TechCrunch) [...]

[...] Youtube como Digg anunciaron recientemente que dejarán de ofrecer soporte a los usuarios de Internet Explorer 6, aquél navegador que a pesar de tener 8 años de existencia se rehúsa a [...]

** Pedantry Warning **

“…illogical it seems not…”

That should be, “it doesn’t seem illogical”…unless you’re Yoda.

** / Pedantry Warning **

funny that they list themselves first, it kinda takes away from their efforts to seem non-biased by including Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not Opera or Safari.

At the very least they should have added Opera.

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[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

Great move Google and Digg. The time is close when we don’t have to spend hours on extra coding for supporting obsolete browsers. I completely agree on one of the previous comments saying that Microsoft should force mandatory updates for its customers still using ie6.

[...] noticia ahora es que Youtube dejara de soportar Internet Explorer 6, esto significa que a futuro podrían tener problemas al usar el [...]

[...] According to a screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it would appear that support for the browser will be phased out very soon. [...]

[...] Även Digg.com har lagt in uppmaningen: With the impending move, YouTube follows in the footsteps of that other Web 2.0 poster child, Digg, which recently hinted at wanting to cut support for the browser too. Digg’s User Experience Architect Mark Trammell at the time wrote that the site is strongly considering removing essential features like digging and commenting for IE6 users. He explained that while IE6 users make up around 5% of site traffic, it only accounts for 1% of diggs, buries, and comments. – http://www.techcrunch.com [...]

Some of us still have IE6 in order to test our websites on the stupid thing. ;) I personally use Opera.

~DtD

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-14…

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Seriously? who uses ie 6 anyway. Come on drag your ass outa the dark ages and catch up with the rest of the world.

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[...] First the news about Digg thinking about dropping support for IE6 on essential features of the site. Now, it’s YouTube’s turn: [...]

[...] boys like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and YouTube are joining the action. What is interesting about the YouTube story is the placement of the upgrade [...]

[...] Varias fuentes se hacen eco del aviso que muestra el gran portal de vídeos online youtube cuando es visitado con el antiguo navegador Internet Explorer 6. En dicho aviso se insta al usuario a actualizar a un navegador moderno, incluyendo enlaces a las últimas versiones de Internet Explorer, Chrome y Firefox. También se comunica que próximamente la versión 6 de Internet Explorer dejará de recibir soporte por su parte. Si hay un portal en la actualidad con peso para motivar una actualización del navegador, sin duda este es youtube. ¿Podremos ver pronto la jubilación de uno de los navegadores más utilizados de todos los tiempos? [...]

I wish this happens faster. Good to see Youtube and Digg moving away from supporting IE6. It has been a real pain supporting this thingy. Developers can become seriously productive if IE6 is phased out completely. Waiting for that day…RIP

Opera is actually one of the least used browsers. It has a very small user base. Safari is also one of the least used. IE8 and Firefox 3.5 have the largest user base right now.

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Yeah, there really is something wrong with her PC. She’s using Vista. ;-)

“Opera is actually one of the least used browsers”

Apparently it has a bigger user base than Safari and Chrome:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200905-200906-bar

Maybe mike and Lennie can explain exactly how Opera’s reputation is not connected with reality anymore. Could it be that they are relying on bugs in WebKit (developing for WebKit), and cursing Opera for not having 100% bug compatibility with WebKit, so when Opera is slightly different, they automatically blame Opera because they are biased against it?

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i beg to differ. Being a web developer myself, I have to say that developing a site for IE6 has been one the worst experience ever.

For info, I use standard-compliant css and IE6 seems to live in its own secluded world

Does anyone know if windows has done a forced update for iE7 yet?
I have herd a rummer that it was going to be in the next set of updates. But I guess these sort of rumors have been around since time began!

“Because of a recent European Commission anti-trust ruling, Windows 7′s European version will not be integrated with Windows’ Internet Explorer, meaning that a browser will have to be installed separately.”
(from bbc news)

woo hoo!

[...] Internet Explorer 6 visiting Youtube now sees a small notification saying that Youtube is about to phase out it’s support for that browser. That is good news and something I hope we will see on all large websites sooner [...]

[...] has recently announced that they will soon discontinue further support for IE6 and it seems that some other big boys of [...]

[...] standardise on because it deliberately deviates from Web standards [PDF]. In fact, YouTube is now ditching IE6 support. Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it [...]

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[...] one of the largest websites on the planet is no longer going to be supporting Internet Explorer 6.0. For some, this is sad news and for others this couldn’t make them [...]

Cool….
auch Deutschland freut sich auf die Zeit nach dem IE6 :-))

[...] At last, at long, long last, there appears to be a groundswell of opposition to supporting IE6. The revolution has begun! First Twitter began hinting to its users to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 (oddly, even if you were using Firefox 3.5 apparently). Next Digg announced that they might be “cutting back on development time” for IE6. And now it appears that YouTube will be phasing out support for IE6. [...]

Below, you will see a message returned from using I.E.8 @ ADP’s payroll site from home. Yet, @ work I’m forced to use I.E.6 because of mandateds forced upon me by lazy IT folks. At work there isn’t problem with ADP’s site

If a supposedly secure site such as ADP can’t even peruse the proper version of any browser properly!, then, how can anyone expect end users to know or want to upgrade/change to a different browser.

It’s not that I’m a fan of any one browser, or a hater of any other. I just want consistency across the board, and it AIN’T happening folks.!!!!!!!!

ezLaborManager does not support the browser version you are using. Most current versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox are supported, but very new or “beta” versions may not be supported.
Please contact your system administrator for assistance.

The browser version you are using is:
Unknown Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; UA15000; UQWNLWJMTK; GTB5; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

Meanwhile across the ocean at Chinese video site Tudou:
http://woooh.com/2009/07/%E5%9C%9F%E8%B1%86%E7%BD%91%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%8F%E8%A7%88%E5%99%A8%E4%BD%BF%E7%94%A8%E6%83%85%E5%86%B5-%E7%8A%B6%E5%86%B5.html

[...] Doogie2K on Jul.16, 2009, under CoolStuff If YouTube and Digg can say “fuck IE6,” chances are you can, [...]

[...] giunge all’occhio questa notizia: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye Voi che ne pensate? Mossa azzardata o una sferzata che potrebbe aiutare indirettamente anche noi [...]

[...] YouTube is phasing out IE6. Facebook, another big-ticket site, has already been warning users to move away from [...]

[...] Social Media sites across the web are a-buzz this week with users who, for the most part, are rejoicing the decision by two major online companies – Digg and YouTube – to discontinue support for IE6. [...]

haha, i think that “interesting group” would be web developers who are stuck debugging for IE6

[...] News that Youtube will kill it’s support for IE6 [...]

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye – Stop ie6 campaign [...]

Safari, too little browser for too much web!
Opera, wasted effort, futility, futility futility!
Chrome needs more work!
Who still uses IE these days?
Firefox does no evil!

[...] all over the news. YouTube is dropping support for IE6. One of the first top-tier websites to do it, I [...]

IE6 must die. Can’t wait till it is history, like netscape. http://idroppedie6.com/

[...] 许多网站都已经开始缓慢的撤下对IE6的支持，而像Twitter、Facebook、Digg和YouTube这样的知名网站也已经加入了这个行动。YouTube对于放置浏览器升级按钮的位置的故事却别有一点意思。 [...]

[...] si sta però muovendo tra i grandi player del web, in primis YouTube. E’ notizia recente infatti un messaggio rivolto agli utilizzatori di IE6 che accedono a YouTube, che si vedranno [...]

ever since before *trying* ie7, i’ve been locking down inetcpl, and using better browsers. maxthon somewhat fixed ie7, but ie7 just wasn’t good enough… tried ie7pro recently.. it’s missing too many features…

as long as google lets lynx users watch vids, then they’re all right with me. One of utoobz best features is the moronic (text) insults :-)
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6853/ie6yootoobkrommos.png

Which browser is Borat’s favorite? inquiring myndz want to know. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050670/bulgarian-web-browser-challenge-ie

ms still patches ie6, but i think only because xp sp2 is still supported.
whatever apps use bits of ie, apparently run fine using ie6 bits.

i love those surroundsound smakkdowns on utoob.

grammar polish reverse?

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye [...]

ohhhh…..i feel sorry for the person who downloads IE8!

I once made that mistake….n-e-v-e-rrrrr again! :(

too bad they don’t have an IE7 option.
getting rid of IE8 after making the mistake of downloading it…..is like realizing you just jumped off the grand canyon without a parachute or bungee cord and there is nothing but rocks below….yikes!

[...] Twitter, Facebook, Digg y YouTube han dejado de ofrecer soporte a este navegador, siendo el caso de YouTube el más descarado de todos ellos, ya que no solo abandona el soporte para IE6, sino que además [...]

[...] de Julio Youtube (propiedad de Google) dejará de funcionar para Internet Explorer 6 (propiedad de Microsoft). Saquen sus [...]

[...] Source: TechCrunch [...]

[...] Source: TechCrunch [...]

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye – TechCrunchWow, you have no idea. Safari makes up over 8% of the browser market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U ..b_browsers . Like Stefan said, Safari and Chrome use the same rendering engine, so it makes sense for Google/YouTube to push their own browser [...]

[...] from smaller companies, the first big player is taking the biggest drama to an end. Youtube seems to stop supporting the IE 6. Best news in a [...]

[...] att YouTube fasar ut ie6 kom väldigt lägligt denna vecka. Har vridit och vänt på beslutet att stödja eller inte stödja [...]

updates outside from microsoft? there is only way ;) microsoft is launichg updates for updates and after patches for updates for updates. other way of thinking: is anyone doesn’t know there are many modern browser working very well on XP and ONE IMPORTANT THING:In 2006, citing its lack of security, PC World named Internet Explorer 6 number 8 on their list of the “25 worst tech products of all time”.
And what about evolution? have we still keep a poor pages becuase microsoft piss off W3C standards? NO ! :) so there is the greates news I ever heard ;) I’m just webdeveloper and cannot say I’m not supporting ie6 but now I CAN :)

SOLID.H의 생각…

유튭 IE6 지원중단 짱이다.ㅋㅋ…

[...] Twitter und ich kann nur freudig grinsen. Anfang der Woche gleich die beste Nachricht seit langem: Youtube stellt den IE6-Support ein. Das darf auch hier nicht unerwähnt [...]

Good point. Just get rid of IE6 already!

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye – The movement to kill off Internet Explorer 6 continues. It’s about [...]

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye Fans of Internet Explorer (do any really exist..?!) who frequent YouTube are now being notified that the platform will be dropping support for IE6 in the near future. Gone are the days where web app developers felt the need to continually support aging browser technology as to not “upset” the user base. [...]

i find it difficult to believe that anyone doing any sort of semi-serious webdev wouldn’t hate IE6.

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

So i wasnt the only one thinking this. I upgraded from IE6 to Firefox several years ago and havent looked back since. Switching from IE6 to Firefox is easier than switching from IE6 to IE7, since MS ruined the UI of that browser.
Operas good, but i got addicted to some addons when i started using Firefox, so for now Opera is not for me, although i heard its a bit faster than Firefox.

[...] 参考：YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye (TechCrunch) [...]

[...] July 18, 2009 Posted by anand in General. trackback There seems to be a growing movement on the web to stop supporting the IE6 browser. I couldn’t be any happier. Supporting [...]

Finally many people will upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 or even to an alternative browser. This would take a huge burden from webdesigners having trouble to get their pages display correct for everyone.

[...] Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. YouTube follows in the footsteps of that other Web 2.0 poster child, Digg, which recently hinted at wanting to cut support for the browser Original Story Link [...]

[...] به اشتراک گذاشتند. وبلاگ TechCrunch در مقاله ای با عنوان “یوتیوب بوسه ی خداحافظی را بر پیشانی IE6 زد” عنوان کرد که شرکت Youtube به کاربرانی که با IE6 از سایت [...]

[...] boys like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and YouTube are joining the action. What is interesting about the YouTube story is the placement of the upgrade [...]

Mike: “Chrome and Safari are miles ahead Opera. Do some serious testing as a developer and you’ll realize this old reputation is not connected to the reality anymore (except for HTML 5 forms).”

You’re evidently not a developer, or at least an inexperienced one. Opera has higher standards support than any other browser. As for HTML 5 forms (or anything else HTML 5) it’s not very relevant yet as it’s not yet a candidate recommendation.

oh you would be surprised, darvin, if that is your REAL name lol

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. [Die!] [...]

[...] work / don’t work well with IE6 include Facebook and Pitch Engine and TechCrunch reports that YouTube and Digg have also been making noises about dropping support for IE6.   TJ Dietderich sent along this cartoon lampooning [...]

wow~! Good!!!

[...] compagnon qu’est Google. Bon, on a pas réussi à avoir Google, mais on a un de ses potes : YouTube qui arrêtera de supporter IE6. Et apparemment, Digg va faire pareil. Ah oui, d’ailleurs, Facebook fait ça aussi depuis [...]

[...] na IE6, le naredila korak naprej na IE8 ali konkrenčne brskalnike.Novico je objavil portal http://www.techcrunch.com, kjer najdete tudi printskrin opozorila, ki ga dobi uporabnik IE6. Sam sicer tega nisem preverjal, [...]

[...] Já no Youtube, quem usa o navegador antigo é avisado com uma barra informativa no topo da página, pedindo para atualizar, como pode ser visto no Tech Crunch. [...]

[...] YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye [...]

[...] of it or stop supporting it altogether. It seems some progress is finally being made, though, with YouTube ending IE6 support and Digg discussing doing the same. If other high-traffic sites follow suit, perhaps business will [...]

[...] via Ajaxian descubro que en TechCrunch hablan sobre la iniciativa de Youtube (una iniciativa que no es muy nueva) con la que Google ataca directamente a Internet Explorer6, [...]

finally
helen.giang@ryerson.ca

I have a great idea. All those in the web design/dev arena decide on a date when we all stop using ie6. It will be a unified push to get rid of the enemy. I think we have pandered to its oppresive regine far too long, lets stand up for “ie must die day”. Post this everywhere to support the stand!

[...] acordo com uma nota publicada no blog TechCrunch, o YouTube pode deixar em breve de funcionar no navegador Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Uma captura [...]

[...] aux autres, c’est le pas que Google (par l’entremise de Youtube) commence à franchir : Youtube va abandonner le support d’IE6. IE6, le dinosaure des navigateurs web, celui qui est responsable d’une stagnation des [...]

[...] Internet Explorer 6 YouTube Will Be Next to Kiss IE6 Goodbye Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008 IE6 Must Die for the [...]

[...] This week saw us talking about MS Office for the Cloud, Pirate Bay’s new business model, the evil that is IE6 and then [...]

[...] laat weten dat het binnenkort de browser niet meer zal ondersteunen. Een initiatief dat enkel toegejuichd kan [...]

[...] not news, but it keeps amazing me how deep this hate runs. Consider my recent article on YouTube prompting IE6 users to please switch to a modern browser, which garnered no less than 391 comments and over 2300 retweets. Needless to say, most people were [...]

[...] not news, but it keeps amazing me how deep this hate runs. Consider my recent article on YouTube prompting IE6 users to please switch to a modern browser, which garnered no less than 391 comments and over 2300 retweets. Needless to say, most people were [...]

[...] plus en plus les principaux sites internet laissent tomber IE 6 : Youtube annonce qu’il va arrêter de le soutenir, Facebook pousse a changer de navigateur, Digg [...]

Thank god someone finally did this. Major sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Digg, etc have the power to end my misery. Please do so.

I think (hope) Joshua meant that seeing that message displayed on YouTube that they’ll be dropping support for IE6 was beautiful, not that IE6 is beautiful. :)

i don’t understand why microsoft did not update as part of windows update

[...] announcing (and doing a great job explaining why) they will soon stop supporting IE6 . Followed by You Tube taking it to the next level with a message to all viewing their site in IE6: “We will be phasing out support for your browser [...]

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[...] 8 years of hard work it’s time to say good bye. Even YouTube will stop supporting IE 6. Now its time to wake up those lazy IT coffee drinkers. So download all [...]

[...] That’s not news, but it keeps amazing me how deep this hate runs. Consider my recent article on YouTube prompting IE6 users to please switch to a modern browser, which garnered no less than 391 comments and over 2300 retweets. Needless to say, most people were [...]

Umm, the version of safari on the iPhone is limited, it has little flash, you cann’t download (understandably) ect.

[...] IE6 – who uses it? By Antonia Hyde There is much talk about the support for IE6 being dropped at the moment.  Two I read about recently were Digg thinking about dropping support and YouTube showing a we will not support IE6 in the future message. [...]

[...] Youtube est le premier à coller un gros f*ck IE6 sur sa home, c’est finalement logique, tous … [...]

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

If you are using IE6,7 or 8 – Please for gods sake migrate to Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari already! It is a pain to maintain cross browser standards – particularly the f’ing IE!

[...] all support for the browser in their coming updates.  And most recently, YouTube is going to be phasing out support in the coming [...]

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[...] And some goods news for all us web maniacs: techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

[...] rappet fra denne artikkelen på [...]

[...] موقع W3schools وإنخفاض عدد مستخدمين إكسبلورر 6 خاصة مع إعلان موقع يوتيوب التخلي عن دعم توافق موقعه مع الإصدار … لمتصفح [...]

Nobody’s forced to use IE6 anymore, even at work. You can use Portable Firefox on a flash drive. It’s identical to the installable one from Mozilla, only the profile manager was removed (it couldn’t be portablized). Portable Firefox is authorized by Mozilla; you may have heard that Mozilla trademarked Firefox, but PortableApps is one exception they’ve made. Problem solved.

[...] if we want it or not. It won’t even help that Digg is discussing to drop support for IE6 or YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye. Both sites don’t need users that cannot upgrade IE6 e.g. due to limitations at work because [...]

very good .just get rid of IE6 mostly

[...] the Internet probably feels like an increasingly hostile place. Popular sites like YouTube are telling visitors on IE6 that they need to switch to a “modern browser” like Google Chrome, Mozilla [...]

[...] the Internet probably feels like an increasingly hostile place. Popular sites like YouTube are telling visitors on IE6 that they need to switch to a “modern browser” like Google Chrome, Mozilla [...]

[...] به اشتراک گذاشتند. وبلاگ TechCrunch در مقاله ای با عنوان “یوتیوب بوسه ی خداحافظی را بر پیشانی IE6 زد” عنوان کرد که شرکت Youtube به کاربرانی که با IE6 از سایت آن [...]

[...] YouTube is reported to be phasing out support for IE6. When some more major sites do the same, IE6 users may finally be forced to upgrade. In the [...]

[...] no-where on running youtube on IE6 machines. Youtube are withdrawing support for IE6 as discussed here acouple of weeks [...]

[...] a o browser que é sem sombra de duvida o mais odiado de todos os tempos,  a noticia de que o YouTube, gigante dos vídeos na Web não mais suportaria o IE6 correu o mundo por sites, blogs e redes sócias, surpreendeu alguns mais ao mesmo tempo desapontou [...]

[...] YouTube will stop supporting IE6 users. Using the site with IE6, activates a script that asks you to upgrade your browser. [...]

[...] slow but growing consensus of web developers are beginning to abandon support for IE6. I agree with the vocal [...]

[...] no-where on running youtube on IE6 machines. Youtube are withdrawing support for IE6 as discussed here acouple of weeks [...]

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtu…upport-goodbye/ [...]

[...] Source : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ [...]

Youtube actually had technical support of some kind/ I had no idea.

[...] that the most trivial one could embody many thousands of visits a month. However, on the contrary, YouTube, Digg, 37signals and Facebook are requiring their users to upgrade their browsers, because these [...]

[...] month YouTube announced that they’ll no longer be supporting IE6. This is welcome news to anyone that has to still deal with IE6. Not sure if that is enough ammo to [...]

[...] The good part is, that many big webpages have stoppet support for IE6. Like youtube. [...]

[...] este en contra, No importa que sitios como Digg o Youtube, con miles de millones de visitas, dejen de darle soporte. No importa cuanta movida haya.  No importa cuanta gente hable del [...]

[...] web browser family will be loosing support from many major sites in the near future.  Site such as Youtube, Apple MobileMe, 37signals Basecamp and Digg are just a few that will be dropping support on [...]

[...] I’m sick of the developer community whining and moaning about IE6. It’s amazing how many different campaigns have been created in an attempt to get people to upgrade. From the simple brochure sites like stopie6.com to the unethical IE6 update script which tricks a user into thinking an IE upgrade is a critical update. There was even a CNN story about the anti-IE campaign on the front page (which I think they ran mostly because they stood to benefit from people upgrading). And lets not forget the jovial tweets when news broke that YouTube would be dropping support for IE6. [...]

IE 6 is not supported. I wish….

If you haven’t noticed already, CallFire is going through a major site redesign. It’s a redesign that’s very much a work in progress for it’s not just the look & feel that’s changing but we’re also laying the foundation for……

[...] de IE6 de la anumite activitati, Facebook ii indeamna pe utilizatori sa faca upgrade si YouTube se presupune ca va inceta suportul pentru IE6 complet. Cu toate acestea, nu numai ca Microsoft inca [...]

[...] at home and using IE6, you have no excuse. You’re holding the internet back. Stop it. Even Youtube is dropping support for IE6. I’ll be using transparent PNG’s in the coding of this, so if you are still using IE6, [...]

[...] don’t support IE6.” If that doesn’t work, try following it up with: “Well, YouTube and Digg.com are phasing out support, [...]

[...] now. It is great to see that the ‘kill Internet Explorer 6′ movement is increasing in active participants, with a growing number of websites allowing distribution of the message that this [...]

[...] bő négyszáz hozzászólás található a youtube IE6 upgrade [...]

[...] todos los navegadores debido a que su audiencia es demasiado grande. Sin embargo, por el contrario, YouTube, Digg, 37signals y Facebook requieren a sus usuarios que actualicen su navegador, dado que su [...]

[...] reported that Internet Explorer is losing market share to Firefox and Safari at a rapid pace. [via] Tags: News, [...]

This might become a large pain for Microsoft. Since you can’t install more than one version of IE on a computer via normal means, corporations needing services not supporting IE6 might make a switch to Opera/Firefox/Safari/Chrome/name it. And use IE6 just for their corporate apps.

Serves MSFT right for not allowing people to install multiple versions of IE on Windows.

[...] todos los navegadores debido a que su audiencia es demasiado grande. Sin embargo, por el contrario, YouTube, Digg, 37signals y Facebook requieren a sus usuarios que actualicen su navegador, dado que su [...]

cool

Ie6 is not young, he must be to updated by new browser

I have Firefox 2.0.0.16, is that why my computer doesn’t play youtube videos as well as it used too?

I’m sick of the changes to youtube after Google took over & Yahoo getting rid of the beloved geocities & walmart no longer selling VHS tapes.

Change is EVIL!!! It oppresses the poor!

I have both IE6 and Foxfire on my computer. I absolutely detest Foxfire. It slow, awkward and unctrollable. I hate to see iE6 being deleted. I tried IE8, but that required a technician having to work on my computer. They will lose my business. I do review new CD’s, then decide which I wish to spend money to purchase. It will cost entertainers some cash.

[...] eventually drive the quality and speed of the engines forward. Add that to FireFox market share and MSIE 6 hopefully imminent demise and we have a viable playground for Javascript to become more stable and entrenched. In fact, the [...]

that’s the exact same thing that crossed my mind at first.

[...] Included in that newsletter was my latest plugin – WP Google Chrome Frame, which soft launched over the past week. Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer 6 and IE7. What this does, if you cannot be arsed reading the blurb, is allow you to run Google Chrome through Internet Explorer, it’s Google’s latest effort to bring down Internet Explorer 6, along with the phasing out of support for Youtube on Microsoft’s age old browser. [...]

This is giving Nomber of vidio clips at a time very fastly

I am a PC user and I use IE7, and I’ve even seen that image. I am sure I use IE7 bc I clicked the “about IE” in the help tab.
So google is setting up a conspiracy for the next Browsers! I even have Google Chrome, and it mostly fucks up youtube’s videos.
Damn you Google.

[...] that even IE8 and Firefox 3.5 will not have the full user experience. Though with Google already dropping Youtube’s support for IE6, the browser industry could start moving ahead more quickly than we [...]

[...] of the browser market. That 25% is filled with idiots and I’m not working with or for idiots. Large websites such as YouTube are kissing IE6 goodbye, so the people that waste time on YouTube will have to get a good browser [...]

[...] Major websites are soon planning to no longer support Internet Explorer 6 which means, if you are still using this eight-year-old browsasaurus, favorite websites such as YouTube will no longer be accessible (read that full story at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/). [...]

IE7 and IE8 are not an option for W2K users.
Most corporate desktops are still IE6 as many lie of business application will not run on later versions of IE.
IE6 will be around for a while yet.

Companies who choose to make their websites not useable by IE6 will loose a lot of business.

Many companies will not upgrade all their browsers so that employees can waste time on Youtube, facebook or the like.

I don’t like IE6.0 AND Soon

Because It’s very difference from another browser.

[...] we follow an actual trend of dropping IE6 support, as announced on a lot of popular websites like Youtube, Apple MobileMe, 37signals Basecamp or Digg. Why are we dropping the IE6 support? IE6 is clearly a [...]

[...] Major websites are soon planning to no longer support Internet Explorer 6 which means, if you are still using this eight-year-old browsasaurus, favorite websites such as YouTube will no longer be accessible (read that full story at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/). [...]

[...] by forcing IE 6 to upgrade, will we see the end of it.This is especially appreciated by people living in [...]

what exactly is a cunt from your point of view?

apparently from both your name and your response
“cunts ain’t digging you man. sorry about your luck
jerk off. and yes I have a cunt and think you using such a wonderful thing to degrade someone makes no sense.note to you,this is why your not getting any!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really thank to one who wrote this article. I have always been reading and writing texts like this in blogs. Also, I, as a daily writer, present my respects to everyone. I just watched videos like this in youtube. I research in all areas.

I think people must first research before writing.

Great news,ty youtube

[...] a versão de browser ou não. Muitas já estão deixando claro a sua posição, como a 37Signals, YouTube, Digg, entre [...]

There’s nothing Anti-Microsoft about it.

I agree, IE6 should now force a mandatory update to all users imo. I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to upgrade, seems silly, and its a pain for web designers/webmasters everywhere! Well done YouTube!

[...] a versão de browser ou não. Muitas já estão deixando claro a sua posição, como a 37Signals, YouTube, Digg, entre [...]

Are you using the “compatibility mode” in IE7.
If you are, then it´s obvious that it banner will show up since “compatibility mode” uses the instructions from IE6´s version of the trident engine, which confuses the browser detect routine that youtube uses, or it could be an strange/temporary flaw either in their servers or in your PC (likelly you have the flaw called Vista). I know becuase I just tried in a WinXP VM with IE7 and it doesn´t appear there).

i like, many other users ACTUALLY LIKE IE6. I’m too lazy to upgrade, haha, but i have actually had no problems with IE6, compared to IE8 whichc took a whole mess of memory.
That’s just I think, Keep Rockin Kids! haha.
- Cass

techcrunch doesn’t really count since it has a more tech audience.

My site is a little bit more mainstream, and for http://styleguidance.com IE6 makes up 2.79% of all users.

[...] Show sau Hack of Google, Adobe Conducted Through Zero-Day IE Flaw) sau SearchSecurity. – pana si YouTube are ceva cu IE6, rugand utilizatorii sa-si upgradeze [...]

@Jane Bays
There are browsers other then firefox. Look around. IE6 is notorious for breaking internet standards, which is incredibly inconvenient for website designers. It’s also old, making it an issue security wise. It’s a thorn in every bodies side, which is probably why youtube is doing this.

love you

Hope IE6 dies in pain.

I hope IE6 makes a comeback. I love that browser

yeah right!
lol HATE IT WITH A PASSION!!!

As someone who has to use IE6 – work for a Government department – I hope this helps push an upgrade soon. Alas, it will be to IE 7…….alas, Opera is too much to hope for!

[...] July-August 2009: Digg considers dropping IE6 support, YouTube begins phasing it out [...]

[...] a design-focused blog is that less than 3% of my readers use IE 6. And if sites like YouTube can stop supporting it, then I think MyInkBlog can as well [...]

Seems they’ve updated their messaging and given a final date of dropping support on March 13th.

http://blogan.net/blog/2010/02/19/youtube-serves-notice-on-ie6/

[...] previously on TechCrunch: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye (14 July [...]

[...] referitor la Gmail si Calendar într-un mail oficial de la Google. YouTube a anunţat că va stinge lumina pe IE6 încă din vara lui [...]

[...] the news that YouTube (i.e. Google) will no longer be supporting the dread-scourge of the open internet – Internet Explorer 6, this calls for celebration, and [...]

[...] Read the full article [...]

[...] used as well. It’s better to let IE6 die ASAP (numerous parties are calling for or even killing IE6 outright), but with Twinhelix IE6 PNG fix those unfortunated few will not feel so disgraced [...]

[...] Explorer 6, which often has problems rendering web pages (in the near future many major websites, for example Youtube, will drop support for IE 6 completely) and doesn’t fully support RSS [...]

hey ,chrome use more space on hdd more than 125 MB.

[...] Google has announced it is no longer supporting IE6 in Google Docs and Google Sites and it has been phasing out IE6 support for YouTube since last [...]

[...] nerd, isso fez a diferença. Outra coisa que me ajudou a decidir derrubar o suporte ao IE6 foi a atitude do Youtube de fazer o mesmo. Ainda nos navegadores, não dá pra passar batido o desempenho do Chrome, que em tão pouco tempo [...]

[...] be the last we heard of IE6. While Google Docs may be ending support on March 1, YouTube won’t kill it off until March 13. And then of course there are tens or hundreds of thousands of sites out [...]

[...] [...]

I saw the video on YouTube’s scalability a couple of months back and it was really impressive, especially since they were one of the earliest massively scalable services to implement databases sharding. The deal though is that the video is kinda old and even in the video he was talking about the need of a database that could do “parallel queries” which would imply something like migrating to Oracle Do we know what technologies YouTube uses now? Is it still running on Python and MySQL with a modified lightpd stack (I know lightpd actually integrated a couple of youtube‘s patches into their server). I have a feeling a lot of their stuff may have migrated to some Google technologies since their buyout a few years back youtube THANKS..

I saw the video on YouTube’s scalability a couple of months back and it was really impressive, especially since they were one of the earliest massively scalable services to implement databases sharding. The deal though is that the video is kinda old and even in the video he was talking about the need of a database that could do “parallel queries” which would imply something like migrating to Oracle Do we know what technologies..