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Edige IE mode, 32-bit?
Hey, mindst . Did you follow those (fairly) complicated policy steps? It does look like ActiveX might already be part of this. I also have MSXML stuff, xml islands (IE emulate previous versions are in the HTML heads)...hehehe. I don't see all the dots connecting to make this work. 🙂
- Its bit late, but I now had looked at the 32bit thing and found this blog:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ieinternals/understanding-enhanced-protected-mode
So by default it IE content processes uses 32bit, you need extra action to make them 64bit. That blog post was for win7 and win8, but things doesn't changed for win10.mindst Hello. It's been a awhile, obviously, and I've been messing around some more, particularly with the IE "Display intranet sites in Compatibility view". I have this enabled by policy because a few intranet sites have emulate IE9 meta tags. This was doen because they have XML islands and to recode all those calls with XHR and controlling asynchronous/synchronous calls would be an undertaking. Would you know if compatibility and emulate previous IE versions is supported in Edge IE mode?
While I'm here, I've een reading about a new Chrome Edge browser? Does this still have IE mode capability? Thank you so much.
Hey there Tom, the Chromium Edge browser does indeed have IE mode configurable through group policy, though it's IE11 - Configure IE mode Policies | Microsoft Docs
I am honestly not very familiar with the legacy Microsoft Edge group policy but it doesn't look like there's an option to emulate previous IE versions using IE mode in either the legacy or new (Chromium) Microsoft Edge.
Hope that helps!
-Alex
ok mindst thanks so much. I reviewed that link and it makes sense. Enhanced Protected Mode is in the Advanced tab, and is unchecked by default. That is now making sense with respect to the blog and the default.
Hi, I'm not really sure what our group policy is for IE11, but I think Extended protected mode isn't checked by default. We don't have any specific shortcuts to launch 32bit browser, we had on XP machines. And all our 32bit stuff works inside IE. I guess it runs 32bit mode by default, for compatibility reasons. With Edge I just have enabled group policy to transfer intranet pages to IE mode and on 64bit machines Edge also uses 32bit IE mode as 32bit activex controls works as before.
But I guess you may need to uncheck "Enabled protected mode" for intranet zone (guess we talking about intranet zone), as this one is not checked on my machine and is controlled via group policy.
I can only suggest you to make several test: use 64bit machine and try to open your pages that requires 32bit browser. I think there are only two options that you need to look at "Enchanced protected mode" on Advanced tab and "Enable protected mode" on security tab.
