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TomGriffith3
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Mar 14, 2020

Edige IE mode, 32-bit?

Hello. if you have a minute, I have several business apps requiring 32-bit IE as opposed to 64-bit. Is is possible to configure IE mode in Edge for 32-bit IE?   I reviewed this article...   docs....
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TomGriffith3
Brass Contributor
Mar 20, 2020

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. 🙂

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mindst
Iron Contributor
Mar 23, 2020
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.
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    TomGriffith3
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 08, 2021

    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.

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      Alexandra-R
      Former Employee
      Feb 08, 2021

      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

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        TomGriffith3
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        Jan 18, 2022

        Alexandra-R Hello. If you have a minute, I read in an online forum that Microsoft isn't supporting OLE in applications. I hope this doesn't affect ActiveX and Edge IE mode. Is IE Mode/ActiveX still good? I use  MS Word interoperability in javascript to populate Ms Word ranges, etc. from browser fields. thank you very much.

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    TomGriffith3
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 23, 2020

    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.

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