We had a very tough time explaining one of our customers why they will not be able to use the fancy new Umbraco 7 UI with IE9. They have strict restrictions upon the software they are allowed to use. Fortunately they agreed to apply for a special approval to their IT department to install and use Firefox for the purpose of content management.
My question is: What exactly is the minimum Firefox version fully compliant for the Umbraco 7 backend. The release notes only say "Umbraco 7 requires browsers with proper html 5 support, these include Chrome, Firefox, IE10+". I know that the backend will run with the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, but I need to know for sure, what is the minimum version to use, as it's pretty certain that our customer will be limited on some versions here as well.
I don't really know from what Firefox version v7 is required, but why not just say they need to use the latest version of Firefox? If the IT department allows Firefox it's best to have the newest version.
Hi Jeroen. Thx for your reply. From a developer point of view the decision to use just the latest version of Firefox seems to be pretty obvious, I agree. But as I described above, our client is really restricted in what they are allowed to use and just as the IT department doesn't allow to install the latest version of IE (which would also be fine for U7 I guess), they may also be restricted in the version of Firefox they are allowed to install.
So we need to know which version would be the minimum version. When comparing some of the versions at html5test.com (http://html5test.com/compare/browser/firefox-17/firefox-19/firefox-20/firefox-25/firefox-28.html) I see that Firefox 19 already support most HTML5 features. But as we don't know about the quality of implementation in detail, it's hard for us to decide which one would be sufficent for U7.
As I saw in your issue tracker at http://issues.umbraco.org at least some of your guys are working with Firefox 25 (and having some issues ;). Is this the earliest version some of you have used or did someone else maybe already tried an older one.
What is the minimum browser version required for Umbraco Backend UI
Hi all.
We had a very tough time explaining one of our customers why they will not be able to use the fancy new Umbraco 7 UI with IE9. They have strict restrictions upon the software they are allowed to use. Fortunately they agreed to apply for a special approval to their IT department to install and use Firefox for the purpose of content management.
My question is: What exactly is the minimum Firefox version fully compliant for the Umbraco 7 backend.
The release notes only say "Umbraco 7 requires browsers with proper html 5 support, these include Chrome, Firefox, IE10+". I know that the backend will run with the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, but I need to know for sure, what is the minimum version to use, as it's pretty certain that our customer will be limited on some versions here as well.
Thank's for your reply!
Best, Marcel
Hello,
I don't really know from what Firefox version v7 is required, but why not just say they need to use the latest version of Firefox? If the IT department allows Firefox it's best to have the newest version.
Jeroen
Hi Jeroen. Thx for your reply. From a developer point of view the decision to use just the latest version of Firefox seems to be pretty obvious, I agree.
But as I described above, our client is really restricted in what they are allowed to use and just as the IT department doesn't allow to install the latest version of IE (which would also be fine for U7 I guess), they may also be restricted in the version of Firefox they are allowed to install.
So we need to know which version would be the minimum version. When comparing some of the versions at html5test.com (http://html5test.com/compare/browser/firefox-17/firefox-19/firefox-20/firefox-25/firefox-28.html) I see that Firefox 19 already support most HTML5 features. But as we don't know about the quality of implementation in detail, it's hard for us to decide which one would be sufficent for U7.
As I saw in your issue tracker at http://issues.umbraco.org at least some of your guys are working with Firefox 25 (and having some issues ;). Is this the earliest version some of you have used or did someone else maybe already tried an older one.
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