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mindst
Iron Contributor
Jan 08, 2020

Closing IE mode tab crashes all msedge.exe processes if tab was open from link with target="_blank"

How to reproduce: Create html page that will have a link with target="_blank" which will open other page. Both pages should open in IE mode. Navigate to first page, click on link. This will open new...
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jmsoulsby1080
Copper Contributor
Jan 14, 2020
I have the same issue.
Edge version 81.0.381.0, windows 10 1909. IE mode enabled using group policy.
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Moaske
Brass Contributor
Jan 21, 2020

This week I've downloaded and installed/upgraded the stable release of Edge-Chromium and it seems this issue has been resolved in the stable release. I didn't experience any crashes in the stable release.

 

Intranet sites that were opened in a IE-mode tab (by policy) by means of a 'target=_blank' link on a IE-mode intranet page, can now be closed normally without crashing the browser :smile:

Thanks for delivering this fix in the stable release Pernille-Eskebo :cool: