Dev channel update to 81.0.389.2 is live

josh_bodner 

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josh_bodner wrote:

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HotCakeX wrote:

ViniciusFonseca 

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ViniciusFonseca wrote:

Hello guys! Why isn't sign in supported when running Edge as administrator? What's the reasoning behind this limitation? Is there a policy to change this behavior? Thanks!!

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Hi,

this is my problem too. Google chrome works and allows sign in when it's run as administrator but Edge has the problem

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HotCakeX I'm curious why you want to run Edge as administrator?  Doing so defeats a lot of the security that the sandboxes provide, so it's not a state we want people to be in.  (It also caused people whose machines were configured in a certain way to not be able to load any webpages; see https://textslashplain.com/2019/09/27/aw-snap-every-tab-crashes/.  That's why we put in the warning when you're running Edge as an administrator!)  

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Hi thanks for the reply,

well the thing is I don't want to deliberately run Edge as admin, sometimes the situation enforces it.

like when I use Edge on Windows server or in Windows Sandbox.

those are not rare situations at all. in those cases we can't use sign in.

I understand it's a security risk but at least for users that know what they are doing, there needs to be a way to go around it..

the de-elevate on launch flag doesn't help