DP Code - Browser Versions

Browser versions

This page discusses various development-centric browser version issues. See Supported Browsers for the currently supported browser versions.

Useful links

• Google Chrome on Wikipedia
• Firefox version history on Wikipedia
  • Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release
  • Firefox users on macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14 moving to Extended Support Release
• Safari on Wikipedia
• Microsoft Edge on Wikipedia
• macOS History on Wikipedia
• endoflife.date

Discussion of new minimum browser versions

Proposal of new minimum versions

Proposed list of new minimum browser versions for the new proofreading interface.

• Chrome 109
  • Windows 7 and later
  • macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and later
  • Note if we support Chrome 103 we add macOS 10.12 (Sierra), we should check if we need any of the features of 109 vs 103
• Firefox 115
  • Windows 7 and later
  • macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and later
• Safari 15
  • macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and later
  • iPadOS 15 - last version on iPad Air 2 (released Oct 2014) and the iPad Mini 4 (released Sept 2015)
  • iOS 15
• Microsoft Edge 109
  • Windows 7 and later
• Opera 95
  • Windows 7 and later

And the oldest OSs we support with at least one of the above browsers:

• Windows 7 - Released Jan 2015; EOL Jan 2020
• macOS 10.12 (Sierra) - Released Sept 2016; EOL Oct 2019

Summary of browser traffic by OS

Metrics from our web analytics from Feb 2025 which is, in broad strokes, similar to other months. Traffic includes all pgdp.net traffic, not just logged-in users. Consider these very rough numbers.

• Windows - 60.4% (56.5%+ Windows 7 and later)
• maxOS - 16.3% (15.5%+ Catalina and later)
• Linux - 15.2%
• iOS / iPadOS - 1.5%

Operating systems

Last versions of browsers supported on these OS versions.

Windows

Windows XP - EOL Apr 2014

• Chrome 49.0.2623.112
• Firefox 52

Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

• Chrome 109
• Firefox 115
• Microsoft Edge 109
• Opera 95

macOS

macOS 10.12 (Sierra) - Released Sept 2016; EOL Oct 2019

• Safari 12
• Chrome 103
• Firefox 115

macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) - Released Sept 2017; EOL Dec 2020

• Safari 13
• Chrome 116
• Firefox 115

macOS 10.14 (Mojave) - Released Sept 2018; EOL Oct 2021

• Safari 14
• Chrome 116
• Firefox 115

macOS 10.15 (Catalina) - Released Oct 2019; EOL Sep 2022

• Safari 15
• Chrome 128

macOS 11 (Big Sur) - Released Nov 2020; EOL Sep 2023

• Safari 16
• Chrome 134

iPadOS

iPadOS 15

• Safari 15 - last version on iPad Air 2 (released Oct 2014) and the iPad Mini 4 (released Sept 2015)