System Requirements

The system requirements for Posit Workbench users are very flexible because an administrator configures and manages the server on which Workbench runs. The only user requirement to access Workbench is to do so from a supported browser with the URL and login method provided by the administrator.

Supported browsers

  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox (version 126.0 or higher recommended1)
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Footnotes

  1. Workbench 2024.08 includes a bugfix (vscode-server#17 in the 2024.08 release notes) for potential data leakage between users in the same browser session. The fix uses browser functionality that, until version 126.0, was not implemented in Firefox.

    VS Code sessions will otherwise function in older versions of Firefox, which is why >= 126.0 is recommended, but not required. The caveat is that older Firefox versions may generate several harmless error logs in the browser console as Workbench attempts to use the unimplemented functionality: Error accessing Indexed DB: TypeError: indexedDB.database is not a function.↩︎