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Copper Contributor

Nov 13, 2019

Solved

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 ...

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?

Moaske

Brass Contributor

Dec 10, 2019

Hi Shilpa_Subramanian Would using the IE Mode testmode be enough to test this? I guess it doesn't make a difference how/why IE Mode was triggered, right? (got some policy issues on the work machine and of course it doesn't have and Insider build).
My Insider machine is on the very latest build right now

Moaske

Brass Contributor

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?

UmutG
Copper Contributor
Dec 11, 2019
Fantastic news! Will be waiting for the official fix, hope it will be released soon.
Shilpa_Subramanian
Microsoft
Dec 10, 2019
Moaske That's great, thanks for validating!

The fix will be shipped through monthly patches to older builds as well.
- bmoteria
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 16, 2020
  Shilpa_Subramanian Is there a new patch released to fix this issue? We cannot deploy new Edge to all our users until a fix is released.
  - Jose_Alvarez
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 09, 2022
    bmoteria I have the problem that EDGE freeze when it tried to open popup window. I have to kill the process of EDGE to close all windows
- Moaske
  Brass Contributor
  Dec 11, 2019
  
  Shilpa_Subramanian wrote:
  Moaske That's great, thanks for validating!
  The fix will be shipped through monthly patches to older builds as well.
  Shilpa_SubramanianAwesome! Will this be with the next batch? So the januari patches?