Social Networking site Facebook announced that it will pull out it chat support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 6 on September 15, 2010. The company instead urged users to upgrade to a newer version of web browser.

Facebook chat

Facebook chat


Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001 and is considered as one of the major revisions of Internet Explorer. IE 6 also faces security issues and lack of support to modern web standards. In the same development, Microsoft announced that it will unveil beta version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15, 2010.

On Facebook official blog, the company states that they are fixing some bugs and will make some improvement on its chat technology to make it faster and more stable.

Facebook chat is one of the most popular features of Facebook.

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