>
> >> Updates of google-chrome for SL6 have not stopped.
>
> >
> > Ever since I installed that version, google-chrome warns me that
> > it has stopped supporting this version of my operating system ...
> >


Meanwhile another update to google-chrome descended from heaven.

And I looked and I looked again and then some more, and I do not see
any thing that looks like "google-chrome warns me that it has stopped
supporting this version of my operating system". Where and how do you
see this warning. I install google-chrome per instructions here:
http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Install_Google_Chrome_web_browser


> I think chromium is upstream to google-chrome. There will be no more
> support for SL/CentOS/RHEL 6 after version 26.


Do you have an authoritative reference for this statement?


> That's why we are getting the warning message.


What warning message? Where do you see it?


> The reason for the EOL is rumored to be the chromium devs want to use
> C++11 features of newer gcc.


This is an explanation for people who have never heard of cross-compilation (you use
a shiny new development machine to build binaries that run on crusty
old SL6). (People who do chrome and firefox and opera know cross-compilation
because anything built for Android is cross-compiled).


> The only hope I see is for chromium devs
> to use a newer gcc provided here ...


You do not need any "our last hope of gcc provided here". Anybody can
build their own copy of GCC from sources. It is not hard, especially
not if you intend to build something as complex as a web browser.


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