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This is this time in the viewers development when a decision must be made regarding old systems support...

Today, this is about Windows 7 and 8.x support.

LL's latest official viewers already dropped support since they have moved their build system to github, with newer third party libraries builds (among which CEF).

For a couple releases already, the Cool VL Viewer has been using a newer CEF version that just cannot be built any more for anything else than Windows 10 and newer (see this announce), meaning Windows 7/8.x users won't have a functional web plugin any more.

I could (at least for a few more more months), restore the compatibility by providing a way to reinstall the old CEF91-based plugin for Win7/8.x users (with the drawback that this old version is also full of dangerous/exploited vulnerabilities), but is this at all needed, i.e. how many of you are still running the viewer under Windows 7 or 8.x ?

Since no one protested, I will assume nobody is running the viewer under Windows 7/8 any more... While the viewer itself is and will stay, for now, still compatible with these old Windows versions, CEF is not any more, but I will not bother to provide a separate web plugin overlay for Win 7/8.

Thank you to everyone who voted for this poll !

For what do I need that plugin? Can iI SLing without it?
CoolVLViewer-1.32.2.43-Windows-x86_64-Setup.exe is setting up but not running under windows7 !?! Is that because its not for W7?

It has been a long time that the viewer Windows builds cannot run on anything else than W10 or W11.

The reason is even given on the web site: