

Google officially recommends Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge to “avoid any possible disruptions in service such as degraded performance or security vulnerabilities. IE11 users visiting Workspace apps over the coming weeks will encounter a banner about the upcoming change. Over the next few weeks we’ll start showing a banner to all Google Workspace users still using IE 11 that informs them of the need to upgrade their browser by March 15, 2021. This will help the company conserve engineering resources. If the error is The Control is currently disabled, that means the button is grey out and you cannot click it. The sites will presumably still load on that date and continue to do so in the short term, but some functionality might break as Google will no longer work to ensure compatibility. This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs/Sheets/Slides, Meet, Chat, Keep, Currents, and more. In light of that, Google Workspace apps will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on March 15, 2021. This comes as Microsoft Teams dropped support for IE11 on November 30, while other Microsoft 365 apps will follow on August 17, 2021. Google announced today that Workspace apps will cease support for Internet Explorer 11 in March.

While Microsoft is clearly focused on iterating the Chromium version of Edge, the company’s previous browser is still available.
