Browser requirements for RPA Workspace

Supported browsers

You can use a browser to perform a range of tasks from automation creation to automation management, such as the following:

• Control Room activities, such as creating users and roles, managing devices, configuring settings, creating and deploying bots, and maintaining audit logs.
• User activities, such as Bot agent installation and device registration.
• Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface activities, such as creating users and roles and creating a human and bot tasks in the process editor.

Browser support for Control Room and Bot agent and Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface

The following table shows supported browsers for Control Room activities, Bot agent installation, Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface, and device registration:

Activities	Google Chrome (version 57 or later)	Internet Explorer (version 11)	Microsoft Edge based on Chromium (version 93.0.961.52 or later)	Mozilla Firefox (version 80 or later)	Safari (version 15.3 or later)
Control Room activities	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Bot agent installation and device registration1	Yes	Yes	Yes3	Yes	No
Automation Anywhere remote agent for Citrix	Yes2	Yes	No	No	No
Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Bot Insight	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No

1. If you have trouble registering your device from a browser, run the Bot agent diagnostic utility.

   For details, see Perform Bot agent diagnostic checks

2. Automation Anywhere remote agent for Citrix supports Google Chrome (XenApp) automation with Automation Anywhere extension (version 11.2.0.0).

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3. If you are using Microsoft Edge based on Chromium to register your Bot agent and your device is unable to connect to the Control Room due to proxy settings, add the authentication details.

Browser support for recording automation

The following table shows supported browsers for recording automation:

Activity	Google Chrome (version 57 or later)	Internet Explorer (version 11)	Microsoft Edge based on Chromium (version 79 or later)	Mozilla Firefox (version 80 or later)	Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with Internet Explorer compatibility (version 93.0.961.52 or later)
Record automation1	Yes Extension must be enabled for recording. Supported from A2019 v.10.	Yes No extension required for recording. Supported from A2019.06.	Yes Extension must be enabled for recording. Supported from A2019 v.17.	Yes Extension must be enabled for recording. Supported from A2019 v.19.	Yes2 Internet Explorer with compatibility mode must be enabled for recording. Supported from Automation 360 v.23.

1. Record automation refers to opening a target application for recording in a supported browser, and recording actions or capturing objects using the Automation Anywhere recorders.
   • For details on automation using Universal Recorder and Recorder capture action, see Universal Recorder for object-based automation | Edit a task recorded with the Universal Recorder
   • If you have trouble recording automation using Google Chrome, see Google Chrome extension troubleshooting
2. Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with Internet Explorer compatibility mode is supported for capturing objects from web applications based on HTML technology.

Extensions for automation

When you install the Bot agent from a browser, extensions for Automation 360 are installed. Extensions are required to record automation using a supported browser.

You can enable extensions on a device from supported browsers. For example, after you install a Bot agent from a Google Chrome browser, click the enable extension option from the browser task bar. The Google Chrome extension will allow you to record automation using the Google Chrome browser.

When you connect your Bot agent device to the Control Room, you can enable the following extensions from your browser to record automation:

For updates to latest extension version, see Enhancements to browser extensions