As of Q1 2011 IE6 support will shift to maintenance mode and will no longer receive full support from Salesforce.com. What does that mean? Simply put, Salesforce.com functionality available prior to the Spring ‘10 release will function and will receive limited support. New functionality made available with the Spring ‘10 release such as…
- New UI theme
- Answers
- Chatter (note this is a limited release)
…will not be supported in IE6.
The reasons why IE6 is not going to be supported by Salesforce.com follows:
- Security vulnerabilities
- Browser speed / performance
- The standards used to develop the browser limit the ability to develop ‘rich internet’ applications
Salesforce.com recommends that customers migrate off of IE6 by the end of 2010. Customers will not be cut off from using Salesforce.com if they cannot migrate browsers by that time although (as detailed above) they will not be able to utilize new functionality moving forward.
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