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Which browsers are officially supported by Stack Exchange?

Also, what else is needed in order to use every feature of the site?

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Which browsers are supported?

So here's the bottom line for this question: we support the last two stable versions of the browsers that we see the vast majority of our visitors actually use. This does not include beta/dev releases, which are not supported.

The supported browsers, in practice, based on the above guideline:

  • Standard View
  • Mobile View
    • Android browser (including Chrome for Android)
      • Supported: 4.0 and up (source)
    • Mobile Safari (iPhone browser)
      • Supported: the versions that come with iOS 9 and up.

If it's not one of those, it still may work, but you probably shouldn't expect support. Less common browsers people have tried:

  • Standard
    • Vivaldi
      • Works
    • Brave
      • Works
    • Avast Secure Browser
      • Works
  • Mobile
    • Internet Explorer Mobile
      • Works with Windows Phone 8, at least
    • Microsoft Edge Mobile
      • Works with Android, Windows 10 Mobile unconfirmed
    • Firefox for Mobile
      • Stack Overflow appears to function properly in 10.0.3
    • Chrome for iOS
      • Stack Overflow appears to function properly in the latest version
    • Opera Mobile
      • Stack Overflow appears to function properly in 12.0.1
      • Exception: Opera Mini
    • Symbian

What else do I need?

There are requirements beyond using a modern browser for getting the best possible experience:

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  • Thanks @ShadowWizard. Things have sure changed a lot since I wrote the original version of this answer. People were still using Firefox 2 at the time! But even then, IE6 was unsupported.... – Pops May 9 '16 at 20:11
  • Indeed @Pops - I considered making such edit at some point, but wasn't sure enough I can do it right. Let's hope this will reduce confusion now. :-) – Shadow Wizard May 9 '16 at 20:35
  • @Pops IE11 isn't listed on the wikipedia page, is it supported? – noɥʇʎԀʎzɐɹƆ Aug 3 '16 at 18:11
  • @uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC which page are you looking at? I see it in the linked page, which hasn't been edited since between before you posted your comment and now, listed as "Current (final) release" – Pops Aug 11 '16 at 18:59
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    "Android browser" and "Chrome for Android" are not the same thing, and only the former is mentioned. – Flimm Sep 28 '16 at 9:57
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    What about the long-term supported browser versions? Like Mozilla Firefox ESR and Microsoft Edge on Win10 LTSB? – phk Dec 28 '16 at 19:20
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    I don't want "the best possible experience" if that means unnecessary animations and other pointless distractions. I just want to be able to read, vote, post, edit, and comment. Yet SE seems to require JavaScript to be enabled for all of these except reading. This requirement is unnecessary and annoying. SE devs, please make the necessary code for this functionality into pure server-side code, and stop requiring contributors to run any of it on their PCs. Thank you :) – sampablokuper Aug 3 '17 at 21:16
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    Really, the Wii browser works? That's a masterpiece, for me the Wii browser works on almost no page. Are you sure you don't mean the Wii U browser? – Fabian Röling Nov 8 '17 at 14:07

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