Posted on 10/25/2020 6:17:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Starting next month, users trying to access certain websites will see IE refuse to load the URL and automatically open the site in Edge instead.
This forced IE-to-Edge behavior is part of Microsoft's Internet Explorer deprecation plans.
Microsoft has been gradually rolling out the feature for testing purposes for some Windows users since the release of Edge 84 this summer.
However, with the release of Edge 87, scheduled for next month, Microsoft plans to enable the forced IE-to-Edge action for all IE users.
At the core of this new feature is a new DLL file that Microsoft has been silently adding inside Edge installations over the summer.
The DLL file, named ie_to_edge_bho.dll, is a Browser Helper Object (BHO). BHO files are plugins for Internet Explorer. This file is installed at:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application\[VERSION]\BHO\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\[VERSION]\BHO\
Even if the BHO file is stored inside the Edge folder, the BHO is loaded via a registry key inside IE every time the user starts Internet Explorer.
This BHO works by monitoring what websites a user is trying to access, regardless if the navigation comes from clicking on a link or by typing the URL in the address bar.
Every time this happens, the ie_to_edge_bho.dll file checks to see if the user's URL is found on a list of sites with known IE incompatibilities.
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Why the hell wound a business do such a thing to patrons ?! Force is not part of proper business or sales or customer relations practices
Edge is fit for about one tab browsing, and Chrome is not much better, but all of the browsers are handicapped compared to the old Firefox ESR due to its extensions, or Waterfox. Firefox Quantum (i use the portable one) is the best up-to-date one out of the many I have installed. Which you can hack it to get multiple tab rows. Chrome will not let you do that or even let you choose to Alt+Tab toggle btwn the more recently opened tabs, forcing you to go thru all the tabs to from the beginning to get back to where you were. But thank God for options.
I dropped Cinnamon on a spare tower I have in a caddy under my desk. I’m impressed but the video driver is all banjaxed and I’m missing the left 4” of my screen. Might switch over to Mandriva and see how that does.
IE is simple garbage now.
Edge is close to it.
There are several much better browsers out there. I use Brave 90% of the time.
Me too.
Without knowing coding and issues resulting from so many flavors, Linux can be used fine for the Internet and basic computing (we have one that is mainly for the former, but it lack the wealth of easy customization and wealth of free software to do such.
Like over 200 tweaks available in in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10 From the Windows club.
Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker
Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip)
Composite (with my own Quick Launch menu) using T-Clock and Open Shell, by the grace of God.:
And signed in as root by default. It was rather simple and the developers had a sense of humor.
IE11 is old. At work we had to switch to Chrome as the various databases at the websites we connect to will not work well with IE anymore.
I use Firefox on my home pc as I can make changes to the toolbar look.
Edge and Chrome use the same chromium software and have a too minimum toolbar plus Chrome is so slow after a while if you keep the browser open with many tabs all week as I do.
Firefox use to have the same issue but not anymore. It does not crash due to memory leaks anymore.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Visual Assist is a plug-in for Visual Studio Professional and above (yeah I pay for it).
I dont do basic computing. Heavy games content creation and games development.
Wine.
Eve Online and other games which attempt to run on Mac/ Linux use it.
Clunky and slow as hell. Has trouble with accelerated hardware rendered graphics. (As does running most VMs)
Most Linux had problems still with accelerated GPU support, SLI, PhysX etc due to piss-poor driver support from Nvidia and AMD.
Falls back to frame-buffered software rendering? Seriously?
DirectX 10 or above support? Missing. An absolute requirement for games development. DirectX 9 just sucks in so many ways.
Desktop browsing is now the minority player.
I hear you. I do not play or create games on the PC but have about 40 tabs open across 6 browsers, each with its own major purpose, and often about a dozen docs, among other things using up over half my 32GB of ram and sometimes taxing the 4 GHZ Ryzen 3200G CPU, thank God, but never found Linux to provide the scope of customization and functions I want. Yet it certainly has its place and users.
But if it was not for Google marketing and mobile devices, Chrome would be about half as popular, and should be less than that in my opinion. However, Google voice is neat, as it works on an old smart phone that is not activated.
Like I said, if a server needs building, its *ONLY* going to be a Linux box.
Linux is not ready for the desktop world, unless you want to use a bunch of open-source poorly-supported apps. In the normal professional content creation space, you just dont use it.
Next person that tells me to use the Gimp instead of Photoshop, or Blender instead of 3DSMAX or audacity instead of ProTools will get shot :) No one in industry uses them.
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