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Google updates Gmail for IE6 users

Stephen Shankland CNET News.com

Published: 08 Sep 2008 08:41 BST

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Google has released a new version of Gmail for the 2001-era IE6 browser.

Many internet users are still getting by with IE6, despite the mass of recent activity in the browser market including Google's launch of Chrome, Firefox 3.1 due in months, Apple hoping Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft touting its second beta of IE8.

The update means IE6 users will get access to coloured labels for messages, Gmail Labs features, integration with AOL Instant Messenger, and invisible mode for IM, Google engineer Jon Perlow said on Google's Gmail blog on Friday. The upgrade catches IE6 users up to features available to users of Firefox 3, IE7 and Safari 3.

Google said it worked with Microsoft's IE engineers on some of other issues, including memory-related performance issue when running JavaScript programs in the browser, and Google pared back some user interface features that had been causing trouble for IE6 users.

Credit: Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users from CNET News.com

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