Windows 10: Google urges Chromium developers to stop using Windows 7

Microsoft has already made it clear that Windows 7 reliance should be drawing to a close and the company’s focus is on migrating people and businesses to Windows 10 – its latest operating system with more than 50% market share.

Eleven months after Microsoft ended support for Windows 7, Google has finally urged Chromium developers to stop using Windows 7 because it’s no longer being supported by both Microsoft and Chromium community.

“I don’t remember a decision to require Windows 10, but it seems inevitable that it will happen at some point, and maybe that time as now. There have been a few Windows 7 breaks lately and it eventually gets expensive to keep fixing them,” explained Bruce Dawson, Google engineer.

In a new commit, Google confirmed that Windows 7 no longer works for building Chromium and Windows 10 is now a requirement. Since Windows 7 is an unsupported operating system, a readable error message will be displayed when developers attempt to build their Chromium apps.

It’s worth noting that this announcement is aimed at developers only and Chromium-powered browsers will continue to work on Windows 7, as previously confirmed by Google.

“Chromium and its derivatives still run on Windows 7. This only affects developers,” Google noted.

Developer community fixes will be accepted, but so far, nobody has volunteered to add support for Windows 7. Developers still using Chromium should either upgrade to Windows 10 or consider trying apps like Process Explorer to detect problems with Chromium on Windows 7.

Google developers have already stopped using Windows 7 to build Chrome, but it’s unclear when Chromium will completely stop working on older platforms.

As we reported earlier this week, Microsoft is still offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade to those running Windows 7 Home, Pro and Ultimate license.

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Cannot uninstall Chromium browser at all on Windows 10.

SusanMaryElizabeth;

followed the steps you have posted here and was doin' great until the very last step. opened my C: drive but no Chromium folder listed. any other suggestions? really want Chromium off my system as it's a pain in the butt!!!!

thanks for your assistance,

lentha

 

Chromium

Suggestion to read these articles/threads:

• How to remove Unwanted Chromium Browsers
• Chromium can't be deleted

 

how to uninstall chromium

Hi Scott,

Chromium is the open-source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The browsers share the majority of code and features, though there are some minor differences in features and they have different licensing.

I appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• Do you get any error while you try to uninstall the chromium browser?
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  How did you install the chromium browser? Is it through Windows store/third party website/any other source?
  
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  Does the issue persist only while you try to uninstall the chromium browser/ any other programs?
  

You may follow the below suggestions and check if you are able to uninstall the chromium browser.

Follow the below steps if you have installed the chromium browser through the setup file or through the other source.

• 
  Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard, and select
  Programs and features.
  
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  Here you will be able to see the list of programs installed in your computer.
  
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  Right click on the program which you would like to uninstall and click
  Uninstall.
  

If you have downloaded the chromium browser through the Windows store, open the Start menu, type chromium in the search bar, right click on the chromium browser from the search bar results and click on uninstall.

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