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UmutG
Copper Contributor
Nov 13, 2019
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IE Mode popup problem

I'm using Edge Beta v79.0.309.18 on Windows 10 1909 x64. I've managed to enable IE Mode and it works great. However whenever i click on a link that opens a  popup in IE Mode, that main tab and popup ...
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    Moaske
    Dec 10, 2019

    Shilpa_Subramanian I have just tried it on our intranet sites with the latest Insider build (19037.1) with Edge Dev 80.0.358.0 and all the required 

     

     

    edge://flags

     

     

    all set and the test mode string added to the launch shortcut: 

     

     

    --ie-mode-test

     

     

    and I can confirm it behaves as expected now:

    A link with 'target=_blank' specified will now really open the link in a new IE mode tab, loading the webpage as expected. No longer resulting in an empty tab with 'about:_blank'  staring at me from the address bar... Thanks! Great work!

     

    Going forward; will this fix uniquely require the forthcoming 2004 Update? Or will the fix eventually also be rolled out to IE installs on older builds as well? Through the monthly patches maybe? :smile:

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Robin Nilsson
Bronze Contributor
Dec 10, 2019

UmutG I've been reporting this issue for months. But I haven't taken the time yet to see if it's just my setup that's incorrect or not. I was going to try adding in the microsoft login url to a neutral entry but if that didn't fix the popups someone else mentioned...

 

This kills IE Mode for us - I want to use Edge as we migrate our SharePoint 2013 on premise to SPO - I really want to use one browser. But our SP2013 site has lots of 'open in new window' or 'open in new tab' and you have to use task manager to kill the browser.

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