Hot on the trail of social link aggregator Digg, YouTube may be dropping support for the aging Internet Explorer 6 browser. While there is no official date – there isn’t any official comment at all actually – users who still have to work with IE 6 are getting a message suggesting they should update to a modern browser.
“We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these modern browsers,” the notice IE 6 users are getting says. For YouTube modern browsers means Google Chrome (coincidently or not, the first option), Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.5.
As a side note, YouTube was already pushing Google Chrome as an alternative asking users to “try YouTube in a new web browser” so now Internet Explorer 6 users will be getting two links to download Chrome on the same page very close to each other actually, Softpedia reports.
According to gs.statcounter.com statistical website, 13,7% of users operate with Internet Explorer 6 in Armenia.
