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ianwuk
Iron Contributor
Apr 30, 2019

Edge Chromium Dev now unsupported by Google Docs

I fired up Google Sheets this morning using Edge Chromium Dev 75.0.139.1 and it now shows as an unsupported browser.

Does anyone else get this?

 

  • Elliot Kirk's avatar
    Elliot Kirk
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    May 02, 2019

    We are aware of this issue and are working with the site owners to get it addressed. Thank you for taking the time to try out the Insider channels of Microsoft Edge

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    Noel Burgess
    Steel Contributor
    Apr 30, 2019

    ianwuk 

     

    Chromium Edge's UA string (e.g. for the current Dev build on Windows 10 64-bit):
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/75.0.139.1

     

    So it might worth trying simply to drop the Edg bit and enter

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.0 Safari/537.36


    into your UA string modifier and see what happens with these awkward Google sites.  

     

    • johnjansen's avatar
      johnjansen
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      May 02, 2019

      Noel Burgess  In this case, we have been in contact with Google about this issue and it was a simple mistake that should be fixed later today. Your tip about swapping UA strings is great advice to narrow down issues like this.

  • Tom_bae's avatar
    Tom_bae
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 30, 2019
    get rid of all the google thing, MS just using rendering engine is best
    • GregoryLinePlay's avatar
      GregoryLinePlay
      Steel Contributor
      Apr 30, 2019

      Hi davequail 

       

      I advise you to click on "contact an agent by mail " and in the smiley button, in subject, put the file number!

      • davequail's avatar
        davequail
        Steel Contributor
        Apr 30, 2019
        Apologies. Where will I find this file number? Thanks
  • Eric__W's avatar
    Eric__W
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 30, 2019

    ianwuk  Yes, I get the same message with 139.1 but if I dismiss the message everything seems to work without a problem.  Entering data and having the sheet saved to Drive, etc.

     

    Regards

    Eric

    • ianwuk's avatar
      ianwuk
      Iron Contributor
      Apr 30, 2019
      Is this related to Ms changong the user agent string to one not supported by Google?

      Could we not use a Chrome extension therefore to force change the user agent string?

      If so, what would be the updated user agent string to use?

      Thanks!
      • Eric__W's avatar
        Eric__W
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 30, 2019

        ianwuk  An extensioin like User Agent Switcher would probably work in Edge C.  As to the actual user agent string I don't have the expertise to type it out but the extension usually has built in strings to choose from.  I would think one that says it is Chrome 69 would work.  That is what I used in Opera to fool a financial site that didn't like Opera.

         

        Regards

        Eric

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