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DamianCastillo1-Visitor
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May 23, 2013
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Which Browser should I use to run Windchill 10.1

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I am currently testing Windchill 10.1 and getting ready for implementation. I wanted to know which browser I should use to work best with Windchill 10.1 and Java.



I use Chrome for everything but I was not sure if IE or Firefox had any advantage with Java running smoother.



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AL_ANDERSON12-Amethyst
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May 29, 2013
"Best" depends on how you measure the relative benefits of supportability,
security, performance, ease of use, interoperability with other
applications like MS Excel, compatibility with other websites and web
applications besides Windchill, etc. etc.

I know that PTC people typically use Firefox when doing product demos. If
Firefox is "best" for PTC demos, then I would guess it is generally
"best" all around unless you have some local reason to use something else.
For us, our corporate security controls and other IT-process requirements
restrict us to a few validated, maintained browsers -- and Firefox just
isn't one of them.

As for the embedded browser, there are some pros and cons to each of the
available options (IE and mozilla). You should test them both yourself on
your own data set to figure out which one you like. In our case, we found
that we don't like the few problems we found with the mozilla embedded
browser more than we don't like the few problems we found with the IE
embedded browser, so we use the IE embedded browser. I cannot enumerate
exactly what those problems are, however, since they change over time, and
we have not revisited that decision in over a year - so things might be
different in the newest version CREO.

I'd be curious to know how many people on this distribution use the
mozilla embedded browser with some version of CREO instead of the IE
embedded browser, like we use.

Al







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DamianCastillo1-VisitorAuthor
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May 29, 2013

Albert,



Thank you for the straight forward response on this. I think we will go with Firefox for the stand alone option since our VAR also used it when they conducted our training and I will just keep the default IE option for the embedded browser in Creo.



Let's see how this works for us.



Thanks again



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doehr1-Visitor
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April 21, 2016

Hi there,

We are currently on PDM 10.1 M040, and force the use of I.E 10. There is a second part to this, you also have to consider your Java version; in this configuration we've had to hold everyone to Java 7.51.

I have directly seen problems with using Chrome at least when it comes to file editing. Our most notorious (and somewhat hilarious) example; in Chrome, when creating a new Document object type I've seen it create that Document...and 450 duplicates. Simultaneously. That took me a while to clean up . And our other IT members have mentioned various general problems with Firefox including its memory usage, so we didn't bother with it either.

So IE 10 for us.

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STEVEG21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
April 25, 2016

We are on PDMLink 10.1 M050.  We are starting to use IE 11 more and more.  It is supported by PTC on this version and build but I don't know off-hand about previous builds.  We also are currently on 2 different versions of Java.  Version 6 Update 38 or version 7 Update 76.  They both work.  We started out with 6 U38 for everyone when we went to 10.1 M040.  Then since we went to M050 I did some testing of several different Java versions and decided on 7 U76.  The only thing with 7 is it displays a dialog box asking you to Run or Updated.  Annoying but manageable.  On the upside I was having problems with showing the workflow in the template administration.  It would work on the icons the first or second time you try to open one but after that it wouldn't.  Java 7 fixed that for us.

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