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Gary,

To allow the two staff persons here that are on Win 7 + IE9 work with EBS we enabled the "Compatibility Mode". This forces IE9 to pretend to be IE7 and allows the EBS system to work.

See Method 1 on this page for the pictures on how to set this up: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197

I agree with you about the lack of support for newer browsers, the Angel/Blackboard system has the same limitation.

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On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Gary Schrock wrote:

> Anyone know when we'll see updated browser support for EBS? The current 
> support is getting a bit long in the tooth, and a laptop that I just 
> received from Dell actually came with IE9 installed already, which of 
> course won't work. Firefox 5 is now out, and even 4 doesn't work (of 
> course, it should never have been called 5 anyways, but that's a 
> completely different story).
> 
> Further, personally, I kind of find it ridiculous that the system not 
> only doesn't work with the newer browsers, it explicitly blocks them. 
> (My guess is it's pretty likely it really would work if not for that). 
> I can understand telling people that only certain versions are 
> supported, but actively blocking other versions is pretty low. I had a 
> faculty member here who had a lot of problems with that because he's on 
> a Mac, and ended up having to use a secretary's machine to do his 
> benefits updates recently because he couldn't get in from the mac 
> because all the browsers he had were blocked.
> 
> Gary