Opened on 07/20/2014 at 07:29:54 PM
Last modified on 12/07/2014 at 10:56:58 PM
#1090 new change
Drop support for IE 6 and 7, technically
| Reported by: | eric@adblockplus.org | Assignee: | |
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| Priority: | P3 | Milestone: | |
| Module: | Adblock-Plus-for-Internet-Explorer | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | #404 | |
| Blocking: | Platform: | Internet Explorer | |
| Ready: | yes | Confidential: | no |
| Tester: | Verified working: | no | |
| Review URL(s): | |||
Description (last modified by eric@adblockplus.org)
Background
By policy, we've dropped support for IE 6 and 7. We have not yet, however, taken advantage of that.
What to change
- Validate in the installer that we have IE 8 or above.
- Upon initial installation, refuse to install.
- Upon upgrade, refuse to upgrade but leave existing version in place.
- During automatic update, decline to download for version 6 and 7.
- On the client, simply do not look for an update.
- On the server, report that no update is available.
- For users of IE 6 and 7, notify the user that they are using a terminal version of ABP and suggest that they upgrade IE.
- Eliminate code that only applies only to IE 6 and 7.
- Disable the plugin if running on an unsupported version of IE.
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In order to do all this, we'd need to perform this change over two releases. For example, notification to the user about a terminal version would be a version that would still support that version.
Also, some of the installation/upgrade mechanisms may be redundant.