Synaptic Research is designed to run on the following platforms (and all later versions of each browser):
| Windows |
| Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 (recommended) 8.0 or 9.0 |
| Firefox 1.0 or 2.0, 3.0 or 6.0 |
| Netscape 7.0 |
| Google Chrome 15.x |
| Mac OS X |
| Firefox |
| Safari 2.0 |
| Camino |
| Linux |
| Firefox |
| Mozilla 1.6 |
| Solaris |
| Mozilla 1.6 |
The recommended browser is Internet Explorer (version 7).
Synaptic aims for the software to run seamlessly on all the other browsers/platforms listed above. However, Synaptic cannot provide support for configuring any browsers other than Internet Explorer.