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Permalink: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6.

Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to?

Hey, isn't that exactly what Google Docs has been doing to "old versions" of "Firefox" (which for me are actually just Waterfox or Palemoon)? They always say it will be unsupported but it never actually happens (which I am glad, because I am not willing do use a browser with a horrible, barely-customisable UI with no extra toolbar support, roomy bookmarks toolbar, or even decent tree style tabs).

He responded “Oh, I just figured you guys copied the banner that Google Docs had put up.” I was confused. How could Google Docs have beaten us to the punch on this? I opened up Google Docs in IE6 and sure enough, a banner very much like ours was showing at the top.

Wait, what?? Is Google Docs seriously that old‽‽