Is the new Firefox 3.6.2 upgrade supported by RQM?

I am seeing a notice from Firefox recommending that I upgrade my Firefox browser to v3.6.2. This upgrade has some security fixes in it. I am currently using Firefox v3.6. Is this new Firefox upgrade supported by IBM for Rational Quality Manager?

I do know that when we updated to Firefox 3.6 here, the Rational Quality Manager users ran into several issues (Work Item 28712)

Thanks,

-Walter

As discussed in the WI you mentioned (28712), RQM does not currently support Firefox 3.6.x This includes 3.6.2.

From RQM System Requirements - Supported Web Browsers:

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3830/snap0043.jpg

I personally use Firefox 3.6.x on several of my machines and see minimal problems, however there are some isolated problems such as the one in WI 28712.

Firefox 3.6.x support is part of Jazz Foundation Plan Item 93154, which is currently in a "committed" state and triaged for Jazz foundation 3.0 M6.

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the clarification. You answered the even more important question regarding as to when this version of Firefox will be supported. This information is good to know.

I am telling the users of RQM here that they can upgrade to Firefox v3.6.x as long as they are aware of the minor issue that we have seen. For most RQM users this will mean that they will upgrade to the new version of Firefox v3.6.x.

I already heard back from a fellow user of RTC on the RTC forum and he reports that he is seeing no issues using Firefox v3.6.x with the Web UI for RTC.

Thanks,

-Walter

I am seeing a notice from Firefox recommending that I upgrade my Firefox browser to v3.6.2. This upgrade has some security fixes in it. I am currently using Firefox v3.6. Is this new Firefox upgrade supported by IBM for Rational Quality Manager?

I do know that when we updated to Firefox 3.6 here, the Rational Quality Manager users ran into several issues (Work Item 28712)

Thanks,

-Walter

As discussed in the WI you mentioned (28712), RQM does not currently support Firefox 3.6.x This includes 3.6.2.

From RQM System Requirements - Supported Web Browsers:

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3830/snap0043.jpg

I personally use Firefox 3.6.x on several of my machines and see minimal problems, however there are some isolated problems such as the one in WI 28712.

Firefox 3.6.x support is part of Jazz Foundation Plan Item 93154, which is currently in a "committed" state and triaged for Jazz foundation 3.0 M6.

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the clarification. You answered the even more important question regarding as to when this version of Firefox will be supported. This information is good to know.

I am telling the users of RQM here that they can upgrade to Firefox v3.6.x as long as they are aware of the minor issue that we have seen. For most RQM users this will mean that they will upgrade to the new version of Firefox v3.6.x.

I already heard back from a fellow user of RTC on the RTC forum and he reports that he is seeing no issues using Firefox v3.6.x with the Web UI for RTC.

Thanks,

-Walter

Hi Walter,

You're very welcome. I would do the same as you (advise the users to go ahead and upgrade); any issues that your users encounter are likely to be minor UI problems, and if they do see severe problems they can always keep a copy of Firefox Portable 3.5 or even IE7/IE8 handy as a fallback.

-Patrick