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Windows 10 Kiosk with Edge Chromium
We are testing Windows 10 Kiosk Mode with the new Edge Chromium Browser as the app to launch in full screen mode. Edge Chromium is installed and working, however in the Kiosk Attended Setup, the Edg...
The Windows 10 Settings, Accounts, Assigned Access sets Microsoft Edge Legacy as the browser for your kiosk device. When the new version of Microsoft Edge (Chromium based) Stable channel is installed, Microsoft Edge Legacy is hidden and all attempts to launch Microsoft Edge Legacy are redirected to the new version. For more details see Access Microsoft Edge Legacy after installing the new version of Microsoft Edge and Windows updates to support the next version of Microsoft Edge.
The reason you’re seeing the blue screen is because Assigned Access is trying to launch the new version of Microsoft Edge, which is not currently supported in this scenario. To continue using Microsoft Edge Legacy kiosk mode deploy the Microsoft Edge Allow Microsoft Edge Side by Side browser experience policy, set it to Disabled. The Configure for Windows article has instructions on downloading the Microsoft Edge policy template and setting a policies.
Let me know if you have any further issues or question.
We've just upgraded to Windows 10 20H2 last week, then our kiosk machines stopped working. Only showed blue screen (not BSOD). We're running Microsoft Edge browser app on our customer facing Kiosk machines. It's a shame, this should have been fixed before 20H2 was released. Would be great to get more app options when running in kiosk mode.
Cyph3r thank you for the feedback and for trying out kiosk mode. I am sorry to hear you are facing issues with kiosk mode.
Windows 20H2 has the default browser the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium). See here.
And Legacy Edge is no longer included. See here.
If on the previous Windows version you were running Legacy Edge, when you upgraded to Windows 20H2, it has replaced your browser configuration and set you in an unsupported and broken scenario.
We have enabled the first set of features for kiosk mode on the new Microsoft Edge. See here.
We are continuing to add features to kiosk mode and looking to get most of the features ready end of the year 2020 for non-assigned access scenarios, and early 2021 for assigned access scenarios.
Actions to consider:
* If you need to use Legacy Edge (as current features do not make the bar for your use cases) you will need to downgrade back to the previous version (or latest can be Windows 20H1). But take into consideration that in March 2021 Legacy Edge is out of support.
* Try out the new Microsoft Edge kiosk mode as we are consistently adding new features and looking to get most of the features ready
I would like to understand more about the: "Would be great to get more app options when running in kiosk mode."
Can you please expand on this?