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SAS developed Web Report Studio (9.1.3 BI Server installation) for Internet Explorer 6.0. I have used IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.x and 3.x with Web Report Studio and ran into a few different Javascript errors. These errors don’t necessarily make Web Report Studio completely unusable, you just have to know what NOT to do. To save everybody from having to learn what not to do, you have a couple of options. You could stick with IE6.  How old is that technology?  I recently ran across another option which utilizes Firefox as the browser at the SAS BI-ogsource (http://sas-bi.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html):

IE 7 Headaches – Try Firefox

Once you have mistakenly loaded IE 7 and can no longer use the SAS web applications, you’ll find that reverting back to IE 6 will take an act of congress. (Really, and you know how slow they are.)

Use Firefox and install their IE tab. You can download it from the site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1

posted by Angela Hall @ 8/26/2007 0 comments

I installed the IE Tab Add-On in Firefox and Web Report Studio works just like I’m running IE6 (probably even better). In the options for IE Tab, I had to include my Tomcat server name and port in the sites filter so Firefox knows when to use the add-on.

Like many of the SAS promises, IE7 and FireFox support should be included in the 9.2 version of BI Server, so maybe everything will work like it is supposed to in a few months.  9.2 is shipping in Q1, right?

For some reason I must have had too much time on my hands, and I decided to download Google Chrome and give it a try.  Previously I used Internet Explorer and Firefox about 50/50, depending on which one I saw first in the quick launch toolbar.  Chrome installed easily and instantly, and the first web page I browsed to came up so fast I didn’t think I was finished typing the URL.  It renders pages FAST!   Others have criticized the lack of customization and features.  I find it very refreshing, and I’m sure third party plugins will flood the Internet soon.

I like Chrome so much I have made it my default browser.  I have grown to like the most visited pages on the home page, but the recent bookmarks box is useless for me, especially when I just imported bookmarks from Firefox and favorites from Internet Explorer.

I’m not a person that lives in a browser, so I haven’t collected a lot of Firefox plugins or tweaked my browsers.  I just want a slick, clean, and lean browser to render my pages fast.  Chrome does it!