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+## noVNC: Browser Support
+
+### Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)
+
+<table>
+    <tr>
+        <th>Browser</th>
+        <th>Status</th>
+        <th>Notes</th>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Chrome 7.0.510.0</td>
+        <td><strong>Broken</strong></td>
+        <td>WebKit render bug (see note 3)</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Chrome 5.0.375.29</td>
+        <td>Excellent</td>
+        <td>Very fast. Native WebSockets.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Firefox 4.0 Beta 6</td>
+        <td>Excellent</td>
+        <td>Fast. Native WebSockets. SSL cert hassle (see note 2)</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Firefox 3.6.1</td>
+        <td>Good</td>
+        <td>Slowed by web-socket-js overhead. Local cursor causes segfault.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Opera 10.60</td>
+        <td>Poor</td>
+        <td>web-socket-js problems, mouse/keyboard issues (see note 1)</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Arora 0.10.1</td>
+        <td>Good</td>
+        <td>Slow due to broken putImageData and web-socket-js.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Konqueror 4.3.2</td>
+        <td><strong>Broken</strong></td>
+        <td>web-socket-js never loads</td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+### Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
+
+<table>
+    <tr>
+        <th>Browser</th>
+        <th>Status</th>
+        <th>Notes</th>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Chrome 5.0.375.29</td>
+        <td>Excellent</td>
+        <td>Very fast. Native WebSockets.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Firefox 3.5</td>
+        <td>Good</td>
+        <td>Slowed by web-socket-js overhead.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Firefox 3.0.17</td>
+        <td>Fair</td>
+        <td>Works fine but is slow.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Opera 10.60</td>
+        <td>Poor</td>
+        <td>web-socket-js problems, mouse/keyboard issues (see note 1)</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Arora 0.5</td>
+        <td>Good</td>
+        <td>Slow due to broken putImageData and web-socket-js.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Konqueror 4.2.2</td>
+        <td><strong>Broken</strong></td>
+        <td>web-socket-js never loads</td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+### Windows XP
+
+<table>
+    <tr>
+        <th>Browser</th>
+        <th>Status</th>
+        <th>Notes</th>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Chrome 5.0.375.99</td>
+        <td>Excellent</td>
+        <td>Very fast. Native WebSockets.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Firefox 3.0.19</td>
+        <td>Good</td>
+        <td>Some overhead from web-socket-js.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>Safari 5.0</td>
+        <td>Fair</td>
+        <td>Fast. Native WebSockets.</td>
+    </tr> <tr>
+        <td>IE 6, 7, 8</td>
+        <td><strong>Non-starter</strong></td>
+        <td>No basic Canvas support. Javascript painfully slow.</td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+* Note 1: Opera interacts poorly with web-socket-js. After two
+  disconnects the browser tab or Flash often hang. Although Javascript
+  is faster than Firefox 3.5, the high variability of web-socket-js
+  performance results in overall performance being lower. Middle mouse
+  clicks and keyboard events need some work to work properly under
+  Opera. Also, Opera does not have support for setting the cursor
+  style url to a data URI scheme, so cursor pseudo-encoding is
+  disabled.
+
+* Note 2: Firefox 4.0 Beta does not provide a direct way to accept
+  SSL certificates via WebSockets. You can work around this by
+  navigating directly to the WebSockets port using 'https://' and
+  accepting the certificate. Then return to noVNC and connect
+  normally.
+
+* Note 3: Browsers using WebKit build 66396 or later
+  (Chrome/Chromium after build 57838) have a Canvas rendering bug. The
+  WebKit bug is <a
+  href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46319">#46319</a>.
+  This is noVNC bug <a
+  href="http://github.com/kanaka/novnc/issues/#issue/28">#28</a>.
+
+