Supported Browsers

Fully supported

The following browsers are fully supported, i.e. all site features including JavaScript and CSS styles should work properly:

Firefox - all versions
Mozilla 1/Netscape 6 (and higher) - all versions
Internet Explorer 5.0 (and higher) for Windows
Camino - Mac
Safari - Mac
Opera 7 (and higher) - all versions

We recommend Firefox for browsing Ensembl.

Mostly supported

In some browsers, all content is available but rendering of a few elements is buggy. In particular:

IE5 for Mac has some CSS layout bugs, so that for example, columns of text may be rendered one below another instead of side-by-side.

Note that Microsoft has withdrawn support of IE5 for Mac, and they now recommend using an alternative browser on OS X, such as Safari or Firefox.

Minimally supported

Older browsers such as Netscape Navigator 4 should be able to display most pages in their basic form (albeit without colours or columnar layout) but some elements will not work, e.g. JavaScript popup menus. There are no plans to further support these obsolete browsers.

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