Google has started phasing out support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6  , following a hacking attempt that exploited an IE6 vulnerability, despite the flaw being fixed promptly. The bad publicity garnered from the attacks has allowed rivals, such as Mozilla Firefox  Google's own browser, Chrome, to gain market share, allowing the open-source Firefox, of which a new version (3.6) has just been released, to claw a 40\% share, close to overtaking Microsoft's 45\%. Last July, Google also dropped IE6 support from the popular video sharing site, YouTube. Popular sites, such as Facebook and Digg, have also dropped support. IE6 does not support several key technologies that were not around in 2001, making compatible web-design hard to do. For example, it does not render transparency in images, and many site designers must work around the fact that Internet Explorer 6 does not support the new version of cascading style sheets  , the way the majority of sites on the internet are designed.
Google has started phasing out support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) , following a hacking attempt that exploited an IE6 vulnerability, despite the flaw being fixed promptly. The bad publicity garnered from the attacks has allowed rivals, such as Mozilla Firefox and Google's own browser, Chrome, to gain market share, allowing the open-source Firefox, of which a new version (3.6) has just been released, to claw a 40\% share, close to overtaking Microsoft's 45\%. Last July, Google also dropped IE6 support from the popular video sharing site, YouTube. Popular sites, such as Facebook and Digg, have also dropped support. IE6 does not support several key technologies that were not around in 2001, making compatible web-design hard to do. For example, it does not render transparency in images, and many site designers must work around the fact that Internet Explorer 6 does not support the new version of cascading style sheets (CSS) , the way the majority of sites on the internet are designed.
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