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webwanderings on Jan 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8

"Paradoxically, the current version of Chrome runs just fine in XP."

Well, actually it doesn't. As per the lead developer of the Chrome (when last time I was defending XP):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860203

greenyoda on Jan 21, 2013 [–]

That article is talking about how Chrome is less secure when run under XP, due to XP lacking security features found in later versions of Windows. But Chrome still runs well on XP, and probably has no worse security on XP than IE8 does.

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