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# Browsers

For general information about browser use, see the following topics:

- Browser best practices for a secure environment

- Commonly used browser features and settings

- Browser requirements

## Browser best practices for a secure environment

Best practice | Description
--- | ---
Use supported browsers | See the HPE OneView Support Matrix to ensure that your browser and browser version are supported and the appropriate browser plug-ins and settings are configured.
Log out of the appliance before you close the browser | In the browser, a cookie stores the session ID of the authenticated user. Although the cookie is deleted when you close the browser, the session is valid on the appliance until you log out. Logging out ensures that the session on the appliance is invalidated.
| NOTE: If you close the browser, any open sessions will be invalidated within 24 hours.
Avoid linking to or from sites outside of the appliance UI | When you are logged in to the appliance, avoid clicking links to or from sites outside the appliance UI, such as links sent to you in email or instant messages. Content outside the appliance UI might contain malicious code.
Use a different browser to access sites outside the appliance | When you are logged in to the appliance, avoid browsing to other sites using the same browser instance (for example, via a separate tab in the same browser). For example, to ensure a separate browsing environment, use Firefox for the appliance UI, and use Chrome for non-appliance browsing.

## Commonly used browser features and settings

Feature | Description
--- | ---
Screen resolution | For optimum performance, the minimum screen size is 1280 × 1024 pixels for desktop monitors and 1280 × 800 for laptop displays. The minimum supported screen size is 1024 × 768 pixels.
Language | US English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese are the supported languages.
Close window | You can close browser windows at any time. Closing the window while you are logged in invalidates your session after 24 hours.
Copy and paste | You can select and copy most text, with the exception of text in images. You can paste text into text entry boxes.
Search in a screen | Press Ctrl+F to search for text in the current screen.
Local history | Right-click the browser back button to view the history of the active tab. Use this feature to determine how you arrived at the current screen.
Back and forward buttons | You can use the browser back and forward buttons to navigate the UI.
| NOTE: Pop-up dialog boxes are not considered screens. If you click the back button while a pop-up dialog box is displayed, you return to the previous screen. If you click the forward button to go to a pop-up dialog box, you go instead to the screen with the link to the pop-up dialog box. The exceptions are screens that you access directly from the Actions menu. If you use the browser navigation buttons with these screens, you lose any unsaved changes you made on the screens.
Bookmarks | You can create bookmarks for commonly-used screens. You can email these links to other users, who must log in and have the appropriate authorization for the screen.
Open screens in a new tab or window | Right-click a hyperlink in the appliance to a resource or screen to open the link in a new tab or window.
| NOTE: If you right-click a link while in an edit screen, the actions you take on another screen do not automatically refresh the form in the first screen. For example, if the Add Network dialog box is open, but you do not have any networks to add, you can create networks in a new tab or window. However, the first Add Network dialog box does not recognize the new networks automatically.
Browser refresh | If you click the browser refresh button to refresh a screen on which you have added but not saved information, you lose the information.
Zoom in/zoom out | Use the zoom in or zoom out feature to increase or decrease the text size.

## Browser requirements

The appliance has specific browser requirements that can affect its use. The following browsers are supported:

- Microsoft Internet Explorer: Version 11

- Mozilla Firefox: ESR Version 17, Personal edition (latest version)

- Google Chrome (latest version)

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