Twitch has restricted browser support to just Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Poor communications from Twitch have led to confusion following the service announcing that Chrome, Edge, and Firefox are presently the one internet browsers formally supported by the favored streaming platform. No context was supplied throughout the announcement, although it seems the restrictions are short-term and have been positioned on different browsers in order that Twitch can find and shut down access points getting used to create lots of bot accounts.

The problems began when customers began experiencing errors when logging into the service. Twitch Assist then addressed the state of affairs by asking customers to login from an up-to-date model of the three supported internet browsers, and introduced {that a} assist article to handle troubleshooting the problems is “coming quickly.”

Twitch CPO Tom Verrilli later clarified matters on Twitter, saying that the browser restrictions are solely a temporary measure to fight botnets utilized in hate raids. “Sadly that is what the work of creating Twitch protected entails. Of us want to make use of a browser not of their desire in the present day to cease tomorrow’s Hate Raid,” says Verrilli. 

Opera GX has assured Twitch customers on Twitter that they’ll nonetheless entry the streaming platform by its browser, offering they replace to the newest model. I examined three of the largest different browsers myself — Safari, Courageous and Opera GX — and located that I nonetheless had login entry throughout all three, in addition to the performance to each watch movies and begin a stream.

Regardless of the outcry within the Twitch Assist feedback criticizing the choice to drop official assist for different browsers, utilizing an unsupported browser doesn’t seem to outright block all entry to the streaming service. Nevertheless, some customers are reporting points reminiscent of being unable to make purchases on Twitch utilizing an unsupported browser, and even streamers utilizing one of many supported browsers are experiencing login errors.