Technical FAQ

Petrol Prices has been designed from the ground up to make use of the most current web technologies that allow the best browsing experience to abled and less-abled people using the site.

While, the site is designed to work with all modern web browsers, web browsers that have been tested with PetrolPrices.com are:

Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux Distributions
  • Good -> Excellent Support
  • Partial Support
  • Unsupported

Why do we not Support ALL browsers?

We have designed PetrolPrices.com to be compatible with as many browsers as possible, while still maintaining a good level of accesibility and future-proofing.

Unfortunately, this has come at the expense of some older browser that do not support the modern standards that PetrolPrices.com uses. Thankfully, these browsers are only used by a very small number of people today, and upgrades for each of these browsers are available.

Browser Type (and Platform) Percent of Users Year Created
Internet Explorer 6 (Windows) 83.9% 10/2001
Mozilla Firefox 1+ (All) 9.3% 11/2004 – Present
Internet Explorer 5 (Windows) 2.0% 03/1999
Safari (Mac) 1.3% 2.0 – 04/2005
Opera (All) 0.4% v8.5 – 09/2005
Internet Explorer (Mac) 0.2% v5.0 – 03/2000
Netscape [4-7] (Windows) <0.1% 1997 – 2002

How to update your browser (very easily)

Almost every web browser has a new update to get the best performance out of PetrolPrices.com and many other websites, these new browsers also have much higher security features to ensure your computer and personal details are protected while browsing the web.

To get the best out of PetrolPrices.com, we recommend Mozilla Firefox, as this provides the best support for the new web technologies as well as having industry leading security and anti-popup features… it’s also incredibly easy to install and use (and it can import your Internet Explorer Favourites!).

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Alternatively, to update your current browser, please note the following advise: