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Was IE Mode Disabled?
Latest Dev release and the open in IE option under 'more tools' seems to be gone, even though the options to enable still exist under edge://flags.
Has this feature been disabled? Is there some reg key I may have inadvertently tweaked? I cant find any announcement of it being pulled so looking for clarification.
Instructions:
1. Right-click your Edge Shortcut - Microsoft Edge Dev > select properties
2. In target add --ie-mode-test to the end of the line
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --ie-mode-test
3. Click [apply]button
4. Start Microsoft Edge Dev
5. You will see an infobar message - "You're using an unsupported command-line flag --ie-mode-test.
This poses stability and security risks."Click the [x] to remove the message
6. Enable edge://flags/#edge-internet-explorer-integration
7. Click ... menu > more tools > Open sites in Internet Explorer mode
- Here is the Official documentation for how to enable IE mode. It's a business and enterprise feature and it's supposed to be deployed using the group policy:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-ie-mode
You can get the Group policy files in here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Early-preview-of-Microsoft-Edge-group-policies/m-p/693929Please also allow all useres to open an webpage in IE Mode using Menu-Tools-Open in Internet Explorer.
Often IoT devices like video recorder, IP, cams and network devices as well as older Webpages require IE Mode.
So also non Enterprise customer would need this mode.
Best would be to enable normal customers to,add an website to an list of sites always opened in IE mode, without need to implement an group policy and local domain.
Tis list can be saved the way the enterprise list is saved.
We just asked our web developers and web based app owners to start testing Edge Chromium with their sites. We do have IE Mode configured in our enterprise, and we can add sites they need to the list, but it sure would be great if they could just manually enable IE Mode for a site so they could just test it right there without having us to update the Enterprise Mode XML file each time they want to test something.
We also have the case where some power users want to use some of the features in SharePoint that only work in IE, but we don't want to put our SharePoint sites in IE Mode for everyone. Giving power users the option within Edge Chromium to launch SharePoint in IE Mode just when they want to would be great.
Yes, they could just go use IE that's still installed, but we really want to promote the use of just a single browser, Edge Chromium to do it all. 🙂
Instructions:
1. Right-click your Edge Shortcut - Microsoft Edge Dev > select properties
2. In target add --ie-mode-test to the end of the line
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --ie-mode-test
3. Click [apply]button
4. Start Microsoft Edge Dev
5. You will see an infobar message - "You're using an unsupported command-line flag --ie-mode-test.
This poses stability and security risks."Click the [x] to remove the message
6. Enable edge://flags/#edge-internet-explorer-integration
7. Click ... menu > more tools > Open sites in Internet Explorer mode--ie-mode-test seems no longer working.😢
- What is the logic/why are we making it so difficult to leverage this feature for Non-Enterprise? Seems needlessly complicated.
For the short time it worked, I used it _daily_ at work as my computer is not domain joined yet many clients still have older "require ie" business apps. What's the logic behind enterprise lockdown?
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why this is so complicated to activate?
Sean Lyndersay @SeanOnTwt (Edge team)
https://twitter.com/SeanOnTwt/status/1155975713826099201
Update: the team checked in a cmdline flag that should unblock your scenario. Just add the flag "--ie-mode-test" to the launch parameters and the "Open in IE mode" menu will reappear. Note: in Canary (and next week in Dev) you'll get an reminder infobar on startup. hth.
