EREC: BSP compatibility with Firefox 10 (and above)

Question

We recently hit a compatibility issue with Firefox 10 (launched last day of January) and eRecruitment EP03 BSP pages used for the Recruiter scenarios.
This is due to class CL_BSP_ELEMENT_RT_ATTR_VALID, method BROWSER_CHECK which checks the browser versions.
It now thinks the version number is lower than the minimum supported so throws a nasty "Your browser isn't supported" error page.
A quick workaround is to apply an implcit enhancement to the start of the method. Simply "EXIT" to skip checking the versions.
SAP recently removed browser version checking from WebDynpro, but don't appear to have got around to removing it for BSP yet.
George

Answer 1

Hi Roman,
Yes. I understand its not easy for SAP to keep pace with the rapid release changes.
When they do support Firefox rapid release, I'd be surprised if they back port the changes to NW 7.00.
There's still no sign of Safari working in 7.00 despite fixes being back ported to NW 7.01
It appears the version number isn't coming through correctly as it thinks version 10 is less than the
minimum supported version. If anyone actually has a very old version of Firefox that's less than the
minimum version it won't work properly for them, but we can simply ask them to upgrade. For me that's
less of a pain than blocking the newer versions and waiting for a support pack/SAP Note to fix it.
The suggested workaround is a one line ABAP implicit enhancement to the start of the method that
performs the checks to disable it. With this in place we're back up and running in production with Firefox 10/11.
George