[Toaster] Reference browser for testing purposes

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 28 March 2014 12:12:22 Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Barros Pena, Belen
> >><belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>We should probably have raised this question earlier and had a plan in
> >>place, but hey, better late ... The question is: which browsers should we
> >>be using as a reference for QA purposes? Our guideline here is decent
> >>HTML5 compatibility, but we never qualified what 'decent' means.
> >>
> >>The other reference we could use is traffic to the Yocto Project website.
> >>Visits are mainly coming from Chrome 32 and 33 on Windows, and Firefox 26
> >>and 27 on Linux. I can put together more detailed numbers if anybody
> >>wants to see them.
> >>
> >>Those might be a bit too cutting edge, but could guide our decision
> >>somehow. QA is currently testing with Firefox 11: that is probably too
> >>old.
> >>
> >>In light of the above, any suggestions about which browsers we should use
> >>for testing?
>
> Just in case is useful, a list of the supported distros and their browsers
> (the ones I could find):
> 
> * Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) - Firefox 11.0
> 
> * Ubuntu 12.10 - Firefox 16.0.1
> 
> * Ubuntu 13.04 - Firefox 20.0

We'll need to add Ubuntu 13.10 here, and probably drop Ubuntu 12.10

> * Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) - Firefox 17.01

Fedora 18 is out of support so we'll be dropping it for 1.6.

> * Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger's Cat) - Firefox 21.0

We'll need to add Fedora 20 (Firefox 28.0 here).
 
> * CentOS release 6.4 - ?
>
> * Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (Squeeze) - ?

I wouldn't bother with these two to be honest.
 
> * Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (Wheezy) - Chromium 26.0.1410.43 and Firefox 10.0.12
> 
> * Debian GNU/Linux 7.1 (Wheezy) - ?
> 
> * openSUSE 12.2 - Firefox 14.0.1

Drop openSUSE 12.2, we should be dropping it from our support list
 
> * openSUSE 12.3 - Firefox 19.0
 
We probably want openSUSE 13.1 as well.

(FWIW I've just sent a note to QA to get our tested distro list updated.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre