Facebook on Wednesday said it will drop chat support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 in three weeks, the latest effort to stamp out the nine-year-old browser.

In a message on its Web site that also said it was dealing with complaints about the reliability of its instant-messaging Chat feature, the popular social networking site announced that it would stop supporting IE6 on Sept. 15. It urged consumers to upgrade to a newer browser, and pointed them to Microsoft's site for the newer IE8.

"We've decided to make rapid improvements and provide the best Chat experience possible, which means we will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 browsers," said Facebook software engineer Rodrigo Schmidt on the company's blog.

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