browser compatibility

Stop Edge from Taking Over: How to Change Default Browser in Windows 11 Permanently Windows 11 proudly arrives with Microsoft Edge preinstalled. And while Edge isn’t without its merits—especially since it now runs on Chromium—many Windows users prefer alternatives like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or...

Google’s Chrome installer for Windows users encountered a baffling hiccup recently – one that left many scratching their heads and, in one instance, even led some to give up on installation altogether. In this article, we delve into the details of what went wrong, why it took so long to fix, and...

The digital world evolves at breakneck speed, yet sometimes a blast from the past remains necessary. While modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox dominate the scene, many Windows 10 users still find themselves in need of Internet Explorer 11—especially for legacy...

Last year, the Compat 2021 effort made tangible progress on improving five of the top pain points for web developers. Microsoft, in collaboration with Google and Igalia, contributed a rewrite of the CSS Grid module in Blink, along with bug fixes for CSS Transforms. Representatives from Apple...

Today, we’re happy to share our support for Open Web Docs, a new collective launching today which is dedicated to sustainably supporting high-quality, browser-agnostic, community-driven web developer documentation. Open Web Docs employs full-time writing staff to support the development and...

Attention: windowsForum members: I have a web page that serves up fine ( my personal computer is configured as a dedicated web server ), except that the embedded video in that web page does not work ( it will not work in either the Vivaldi or Opera web browsers, for example ). I just...

Just over one year ago, we started working on a best practices tool for the web called Link Removed—a customizable, open-source linting tool, built for modern web developer workflows. Today, we are announcing the release of its first major version. With today’s launch, we’d like to talk you...

Whenever I try to access Yahoo mail using Edge I get this message "Please reload the page and try again or use another browser". Reloading doesn't help. I have other browsers I can use, but wonder why edge doesn't work with Yahoo mail. Any ideas?

We are happy to introduce support for Content Security Policy Level 2 (CSP2) in Microsoft Edge, another step in our ongoing commitment to make Microsoft Edge the safest and most secure browser for our customers. CSP2, when used correctly, is an effective defense-in-depth mechanism against cross...

Editor’s Note – this post was originally posted on Medium and has been updated to reflect the latest information. Let’s talk about the progress of web apps. No, that’s not an autocorrect mistake from “progressive web apps” — let’s take a look at how the web has progressed from “a large...

Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL renderer – specifically, the GLSL to HLSL transpiler. We hope that the source code is useful for everybody working on similar WebGL projects, and that this will help performance, correctness and...

Starting in EdgeHTML 14, coming with this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the highly anticipated Fetch APIs. This represents the first step in our planned journey to supporting Service Worker in a future release. You can preview the Fetch APIs in Link Removed...

Hello, I have a pc I had rarely used with Windows 8, which I just updated to 8.1 When I checked for updates, I have 175 updates that I needed to download and install. Couple questions... 1) do I need to dl and install all updates? (Some are updates that have the year 2012 on it). Can I pick and...

IE11 display negative numbers in color ? IE11 - unable to show negative numbers in red in when displaying tables from Fidelity Investments. Works fine in FireFox. How do I setup to show negative numbers in color, or can I?

My internet has been being very finicky lately and it all started on the 9th of this month. I don't recall changing anything when this issue started. Sometimes downloads lose connection and I have to click retry. My Avira Pro antivirus updates whenever it wants to and when I try doing a...

Just did the upgrade and it went smoothly-I THOUGHT. Now strange issue. Some videos, the sound is distorted. Some all is OK. Computer sound card is top of the line. All AVI videos and music files including WAV on my system are fine. It is only when I play SOME videos in a browser ( I use and...

When using IE 10 and this site, trying to start a new paragraph in a reply or starting a thread is impossible. Usually when starting a new paragraph one would just hit the return key and it starts a new paragraph. For what every reason, starting a new paragraph using IE 10 and this site just...

Hopefully someone here has Yahoo mail. My yahoo mail doesn't like to open right away. I did not copy what what it said, I will later, but I have to click on all these buttons, doesn't matter which keys they are or what tabs they are, and then my mail will open - drives me nuts. This is the...

My entire organization in currently running XP, however we are thinking about going to Windows 7 if i can get this to work. We are using Siebel 7 Production in order to manage our customers, and this only runs in IE6. This is fine since we are still using XP and actually this is the reason we...

As much as I want IE6 to die, the truth of the matter is that not everyone can dump the aging web browser and move on to a later incarnation. There are a variety of reasons why enterprises are... More...