"Adblock Plus" to delete advertisement on the web decides support end of IE 6 and IE 7

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A funeral heldInternet Explorer 6 (IE 6) has been used by as many people as possible, finally Adblock Plus support will be discontinued, Adblock Plus explains the circumstances in the official blog.

Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7
https://adblockplus.org/blog/discontinuing-support-for-internet-explorer-6-and-7


Adblock Plus Drops Support for IE 6 and IE 7
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/04/29/adblock-plus-drops-support-ie6-ie7-citing-complicated-development-low-market-share/


Up to now IE version of Adblock Plus "Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer"Has been compatible with all versions of IE including IE 6 and IE 7. However, adapting to all versions has complicated the development of Adblock Plus, and it seems that there is a necessity to widely support various websites and infrastructure technologies. For example, since the secure TLS 1.0 protocol is off by default in IE 6, Adblock Plus's official blog revealed that Adblock Plus had to continue supporting Adaptec Plus much more outdated SSLv3 protocol I will.

Finally, Adblock Plus terminates support of IE 6 and IE 7, but this seems to cause the following phenomenon.

· The next version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer can not be installed unless it is IE 8 or higher
- In order to be able to browse the Adblock Plus website properly also in IE 6 and IE 7, we have incorporated multiple elements so far but they are deleted
Since the download server of Adblock Plus deactivates the SSLv3 protocol, it is necessary to manually turn on the TLS 1.0 protocol in order to access here at IE 6

In addition, we investigate and disclose the market share of OS and browser of PC and mobile terminalNetMarketShareAccording to the survey, we can see that there is a share of 3.73% for IE 6 and 0.71% for IE 7 even at the stage of April 2014.


Furthermore, it is the most popular search engine in ChinaBaiduHas publishedStatistics report, The browser share of Baidu users in April 2014 is 8.3% in IE 6, 3.31% in IE 7, and the market share is higher compared with the data in the whole world.


End of support for Windows XP and Office 2003Along with IE 6, which has ended support from Microsoft, is I supposed to end support from many services in the future?