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The MusicBrainz website officially supports the following browsers:
As of 7th June 2022, the MusicBrainz website officially supports the following browsers:


* Apple Safari 5.1 or newer
* Apple Safari 9.0 or newer
* Google Chrome 25 or newer
* Google Chrome 49 or newer
* Internet Explorer 8.0 or newer
* Edge 14 or newer
* Mozilla Firefox 19 or newer
* Mozilla Firefox 52 or newer
* Opera 12.10 or newer


A bug which affects any of these should be fixed. Bugs which only affect an unsupported browser or browser version will be considered but the developers may decide to close them as "won't fix".
The website should work with javascript disabled if you're not logged in, or not editing data. Javascript is required to edit.


Opera uses the same underlying engine as Chrome nowadays, so if you're using a recent version of Opera, things should just work. Let us know if they don't.
If you file a bug which only affects an unsupported browser or browser version, the developers may close this as WONTFIX. A bug which affects any of the supported browsers should be fixed. The current set of supported browsers was made official in the [https://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2013/2013-05/2013-05-20.html#T19-55-27-304300 developer meeting on May 20th, 2013]. This list should be revised once every 6 months. While we don't fully support Android Browser, feel free to report any bugs on 4.0+ so that we know what is broken in it.

=== Javascript support ===

The website should work with Javascript disabled if you're not logged in, or not editing data. Javascript is required to edit.

=== Mobile devices ===

The website currently does not fully support mobile devices. However, feel free to report any bugs so that we know what is broken.

Latest revision as of 17:55, 25 August 2022

As of 7th June 2022, the MusicBrainz website officially supports the following browsers:

  • Apple Safari 9.0 or newer
  • Google Chrome 49 or newer
  • Edge 14 or newer
  • Mozilla Firefox 52 or newer

A bug which affects any of these should be fixed. Bugs which only affect an unsupported browser or browser version will be considered but the developers may decide to close them as "won't fix".

Opera uses the same underlying engine as Chrome nowadays, so if you're using a recent version of Opera, things should just work. Let us know if they don't.

Javascript support

The website should work with Javascript disabled if you're not logged in, or not editing data. Javascript is required to edit.

Mobile devices

The website currently does not fully support mobile devices. However, feel free to report any bugs so that we know what is broken.