Gmail will no longer support Chrome Browser version 53

Google announced that Gmail will stop supporting older versions of the Chrome browser by the end of 2017. The company wants users to upgrade to the latest version of Chrome, currently on version 55, which contains several important security updates.

Google mentioned in its blog, “Gmail users that are still on Windows XP and Windows Vista are the most likely to be affected, because v49 was the last released version which supported those operating systems. As previously announced in April 2015 and November 2015, these systems are no longer maintained by Microsoft, and we strongly encourage you to migrate to more secure and supported systems.”

The company has suggested that if you continue to use older versions of Chrome Browser after the support has ended, Gmail will be more vulnerable to security risks and users will not have access to new features along with bug fixes. Users who remain on Chrome v53 and below could be redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as Dec 2017.