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Comment by temuze | Hacker News Reader

I'm using Chrome on Linux and I got "You are using an outdated browser - You are using an old version of Chrome whis is 28."

That's a little snarky. Chrome on Linux doesn't have automatic updating and I tend to forget to update. Here's a mirror:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LWDDNOb...

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Chrome on Linux uses the system package manager to autoupdate. The current version of Chrome is 34. Chrome is on a six week release cycle, so your version number indicates you haven't had a system update in something like (34-28)*6 = 36 weeks. Much of the software you're running has known security vulnerabilities.

CTO of voicerepublic.com here.

Sorry for coming off snarky. We develop and run VR using Debian Stable which ships Chromium 33 right now.

We are a very small team building voicerepublic.com and did launch just last week. To offer a perfect experience, we only allow browsers that we actually could test. Whence the team grows, we certainly will test and support more browser versions.

Good answer. And hey, on the bright side, you reminded me to update Chrome!

How are you not getting chrome updates from your distro?

Update: Some stats

After about 4000 hits from HN, about 1% of visitors have a browser older than:

* Chrome/Chromium 30

* Safari 7

* Firefox 24

* IE 10

You shouldn't keep people out that have older browser versions.

Instead, you should prompt the user and warn them that their browser has not been tested and is not supported, but they may continue.

Very shortsighted to block a site visit based on a browser. Guess I'll never see your website.

Neither does it work under OSX 10.8 + Safari 6. I'm used to games asking for latest&gratest in everything, but a website?

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