{"id":692,"date":"2011-02-04T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2011\/02\/04\/internet-explorer-firefox-safari-and-chrome-support-for-office-documents-in-sharepoint-2010\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:37:00","slug":"internet-explorer-firefox-safari-and-chrome-support-for-office-documents-in-sharepoint-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2011\/02\/04\/internet-explorer-firefox-safari-and-chrome-support-for-office-documents-in-sharepoint-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome Support for Office Documents in SharePoint 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClassD70D6A2B15664AA488D1F874216D9CCD\">\n<h2>A customer asked this today (and thought it might help others): <\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hi Sean, <\/p>\n<p>Clive is having more than a few problems using Google Chrome on our SP sites. But didn&#8217;t you say that you use Chrome all the time? He&#8217;s discovered he can&#8217;t save anything. Did you have to do anything about SP&#8217;s security for Chrome to work? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>Barney <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>To which I responded: <\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Hey Barney <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Internet Explorer is the *<strong>only<\/strong>* browser that supports the Office bits for Document Libraries <\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Open in Explorer <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Upload Multiple Documents <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Datasheet View in lists <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Right click or click on a document and open natively in the supported app (Word, Excel, etc.)<span style=\"color:#c0504d\"><strong>*<\/strong><span style=\"color:#1f497d\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#c0504d\"><strong>*<\/strong><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Firefox is the next in the queue in that if you have Office 2010 (only, not 2007) the right-click support, etc. for Office docs work, but that&#8217;s still it <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">FireFox and Safari are considered 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Tier browsers. Good support for most stuff (except the Office Support) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Chrome isn&#8217;t even acknowledged but I think mostly because M$ doesn&#8217;t like to acknowledge Google <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">I do use Chrome a lot, when I&#8217;m doing everything *<strong>but<\/strong>* documents. It runs\/loads faster and I&#8217;m a big fan of using Wiki&#8217;s, blogs and lists instead of Word and Excel wherever possible. But when I need to work with documents, I launch IE. Google\/Firefox have add-ons called &#8220;IETAB&#8221; which allows you to choose to open wherever you are (some SharePoint site) in Internet Explorer, for those times that you need IE. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">It will be interesting to see if the Office team ever extends the extra functionality to other browsers but I suspect it isn&#8217;t in the cards as those other browsers can use the Office Web Apps (for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) which will continue to evolve and improve. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Sean <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Ps. The Official\/wordy overview regarding SharePoint 2010 Browser support can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc263526.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc263526.aspx<\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer asked this today (and thought it might help others): \u00a0 Hi Sean, Clive is having more than a few problems using Google Chrome on our SP sites. But didn&#8217;t you say that you use Chrome all the time? He&#8217;s discovered he can&#8217;t save anything. 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