jWebSocket Supported Browsers

Latest update of this page: 2010-11-18 Please also refer to jWebSocket Cross-Browser-Compatibility. Currently the following browsers are supported by jWebSocket. Chrome 4.0.429, 5+, 6+, 7+, 8+ as well as Safari 5, Firefox 3.7a6, 4.0b and Opera 10.7, 11.0 already support native HTML5 WebSockets - all common other brothers compatible with FlashBridge.

Browser Version SSL
wss://		 Comment

Chrome

8.0.x
7.0.x
6.0.x
5.0.x
4.0.249+

 8.0.x
7.0.x

Chrome includes native WebSockets since 4.0.249. SSL (wss) approved with Jetty 8.0.
Tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-02-28.
Download latest Google Chrome here .
Safari 5.x
4.x		 -

Safari 5.x includes native WebSockets - tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-06-08. Safari 4.x does not yet provide the WebSocket class.
Installing Adobe Flash Player is a reliable, quick and simple workaround - absolutely transparent to your application.

Firefox

 4.0b1+
3.7a6
3.0+		 -

Firefox 3.7a6 and 4.0b1+ now include native WebSockets - tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-07-14,
including new Security features (Sec-WebSocket-Key header processing), Firefox update available since Nightly Build 0.9.0.0620.
Firefox versions prior to 3.7a6 tested with FlashBridge and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-03-28. Installing Adobe Flash Player is a reliable, quick and simple workaround - absolutely transparent to your application.
Also successfully tested on Ubuntu 10.04 and gentoo Linux with Firefox 3.6+.

Opera

11.0b
10.7b
9+
10+

-

Opera includes native WebSockets since 10.7.9067 (dev internal), 11.0 beta working as well!
Tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-10-18.
Older versions successfully tested with FlashBridge.
Download latest official Opera Browser here . latest dev internal Version here .

Internet Explorer
with FlashBridge

 6/7/8 -

Tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-03-31.
Download latest Adobe Flash Player here

Internet Explorer
with Chrome Frame 4/5/6/7		 6/7/8 -

CF4 tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-02-04. Download Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer here (for IE 6/7/8 only).

CF5 tested and verified by jWebSocket team 2010-06-09, including new Security features
(Sec-WebSocket-Key header processing), available since Nightly Build 0.9.0.0609.
Download Google Chrome Frame 5 (beta from Developer Channel) for Internet Explorer here (for IE 6/7/8 only).

 

Status of native HTML 5 WebSockets support for other browsers (2010-11-13).

Browser Version SSL Comment
Internet Explorer
w/o FlashBridge
w/o Chrome Frame		 8.x
9.x		 -

Native WebSocket support unknown up to now.
Both installing Adobe Flash Player (recommended) or Google Chrome Frame are reliable, quick and simple workarounds - absolutely transparent to your application.