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jdseymour1978
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May 11, 2022

msedge_elf.dll missing

Hello,   Recently, several of our users (including myself) have started getting the following error pop-up, seemingly at random points during the day:   "The program can't start because msedge_el...
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Kris_Boeckx
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Jun 22, 2022

Kelly_Y 

 

Any update on this issue ? 

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Kelly_Y
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Jun 22, 2022

Kris_Boeckx jdseymour1978 tgoldschrafe Zmegatrolls Parker93x Thanks for your patience!  We do have some updates about this issue.  Our developers have investigated and found that the issue is caused by multiple different third-party software vendors who are injecting running threads into the MS Edge process.  

 

We did make a change in MS Edge Canary Channel (v104.0.1287.0), adding the following environment variable will work-around the issue:

 

EDGE_CRASHPAD_ASYNC_ENABLED=0

 

Please be aware that using this workaround does slow down the MS Edge launch.  

 

-Kelly

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    TimP_MM
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 21, 2023
    Hi - can you confirm if this is the current advised solution. I have recently encountered this problem as well.

    Also is this a global environment variable I need to add? - I will need to instruct my IT support team to do this; so want to be clear what I'm asking for.

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