# Discourse will be dropping IE9 support in 2016

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-will-be-dropping-ie9-support-in-2016/31090
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc
**Created:** [Julho 15, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-will-be-dropping-ie9-support-in-2016/31090 "2015-07-15T23:24:09Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Julho 16, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-will-be-dropping-ie9-support-in-2016/31090/6 "2015-07-16T21:07:16Z")

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> **[Supported browsers - Computer - Gmail Help](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6557?hl=en)**
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> You can use Gmail with popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Browsers that are supported by Gmail Important: Any browser you use needs to have cookies and JavaS

> In general, Gmail supports the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. If you use a browser other than those, you’ll be automatically directed to the basic HTML view of Gmail.

So the basic HTML view will be more important for us.. but note that basic HTML is a read only view for Discourse.

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