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Supported Browsers, Plugins & Operating Systems for Release 7.1

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Supported Web Browsers

Listed below are the supported operating systems and browsers for use with the Blackboard Academic Suite. The Academic Suite is a Web-based application and other browsers and operating system may work well, however, the listed configurations are the only configurations that are tested and supported by Blackboard.

Useful Information All configurations marked as Compatible and have undergone a limited engineering analysis to test areas of the Blackboard Academic Suite that may have browser issues.

Term	Definition
Certified	fully tested and supported
Compatible	key application areas tested
Not tested	specified Browser is not supported for the Operating System

Microsoft® Internet Explorer® Web Browsers

	Windows 2000	Windows XP	Mac OS 10.2	Mac OS 10.3	Mac OS 10.4
Internet Explorer 5.2	Not Tested	Not Tested	Compatible	Compatible	Compatible
Internet Explorer 5.5	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested
Internet Explorer 6	Compatible	Certified	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested
Internet Explorer 7	Not Tested	Certified	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested

Notes Microsoft Windows 2000 supported configurations are considered compatible when run on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME.

Mozilla® Firefox and Netscape® Navigator Web Browsers

	Windows 2000	Windows XP	Mac OS 10.2	Mac OS 10.3	Mac OS 10.4
Netscape 7.1	Compatible	Compatible	Compatible	Compatible	Not Tested
Netscape 8.0	Compatible	Certified	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested
Firefox 1.0	Compatible	Certified	Compatible	Certified	Certified

Notes Gecko is the shared rendering engine at the heart of the Firefox 1.0, Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.0 browsers, which are all considered compatible browsers. Only Firefox has undergone testing that qualifies it as Certified. The preview version of Mozilla Firefox (version 0.10.0) is not supported.

Apple® Safari® Web Browsers

	Windows 2000	Windows XP	Mac OS 10.2	Mac OS 10.3	Mac OS 10.4
Safari 1	Not tested	Not Tested	Compatible	Not tested	Not Tested
Safari 1.1	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Compatible	Not Tested
Safari 1.2	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Certified	Not Tested
Safari 2	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	Certified

Notes The Safari Web browser and the Gecko browsers for Apple do not currently fully support the Live Connect technology used by some features in the Blackboard Learning System. The Equation Editor, Collaboration tool and SCORM Content type may experience issues when these browsers are used.

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